strebte
[ˈʃtʁeːptə]
The verdict
“strebte” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,837. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,837
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs streben
Corpus desk
Index DE-strebte · strebte · German
strebte · rank #33,837 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,837
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Strapazen
Nearest frequency peer: Strapazen (-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 „strebte“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Stengel
Stengel
66,167 corpus weight
- Stilmittel
Stilmittel
66,166 corpus weight
- Strapazen
Strapazen
66,165 corpus weight
- strebte
strebte
66,164 corpus weight
- streckte
streckte
66,163 corpus weight
- Strompreise
Strompreise
66,162 corpus weight
What this shows „strebte“ 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 | strebte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʁeːptə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „strebte“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around strebte (IPA [ˈʃtʁeːptə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,837 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for strebte, with forms such as "srtebte", "sstrebte", and "sterbte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Streit", "street", "streut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is strebte, spelled S-T-R-E-B-T-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs streben
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs streben
- 33. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs streben
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs streben
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtebte
- sstrebte
- sterbte
- strbete
- strebbte
- strebet
- strebtte
- stretbe
- strrebte
- sttrebte
- tsrebte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strebte - 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 "strebte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).