straight
[strɛɪ̯t]
The verdict
“straight” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,714. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,714
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine sexuelle Orientierung auf das andere Geschlecht aufweisend oder sich hierauf beziehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-straight · straight · German
straight · rank #18,714 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,714
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sternchen
Nearest frequency peer: Sternchen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „straight“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Startschuss
Startschuss
81,290 corpus weight
- step
step
81,289 corpus weight
- Sternchen
Sternchen
81,288 corpus weight
- straight
straight
81,287 corpus weight
- Sure
Sure
81,286 corpus weight
- Sympathien
Sympathien
81,285 corpus weight
What this shows „straight“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | straight |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [strɛɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „straight“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around straight (IPA [strɛɪ̯t]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,714 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for straight, with forms such as "srtaight", "sstraight", and "staright". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "streicht", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is straight, spelled S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1eine sexuelle Orientierung auf das andere Geschlecht aufweisend oder sich hierauf beziehend
- 2sich geradlinig, beharrlich und direkt verhaltend
- 3eine Melodie den Noten gemäß ohne Abweichung spielend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how straight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wie kann es angehen, dass straighte Autoren, wenn sie über straighten Geschlechtsverkehr schreiben, sich über die ›saftigen‹ Schmiermittelsekretionen des Vaginaltrakts auslassen können […]“
„Eine der offensten, straightesten Personen in meinem Umfeld. Sie hasst Zickereien, weil sie einfach nur dämlich sind, ist spontan, nicht so schnell unterzukriegen und wirkliche Probleme gibt’s nur wenige – man kann ja über alles reden.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtaight
- sstraight
- staright
- stragiht
- straigght
- straighht
- straightt
- straigth
- straihgt
- striaght
- strraight
- sttraight
- tsraight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of straight - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "straight", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).