street

[stɹiːt]

/[stɹiːt]/ noun

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The verdict

“street” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #3,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,401
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - städtische oder dörfliche Straße

Corpus desk

Index DE-street · street · German

street · rank #3,401 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,401
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH spüren

Nearest frequency peer: spüren (-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 „street“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „street“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

street vs sweet
67% similar
street vs Streu
50% similar
street vs Streit
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for street
PropertyValue
Headwordstreet
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[stɹiːt]
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,401
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „street“

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).streetliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „spüren“ (#3,400), „Telekom“ (#3,402), „schwimmen“ (#3,399). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „street“ bei #3,401. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around street (IPA [stɹiːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,401 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "städtische oder dörfliche Straße".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for street, with forms such as "srteet", "sstreet", and "steret". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sweet", "Streu", "Streit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is street, spelled S-T-R-E-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    städtische oder dörfliche Straße

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how street appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. They build a new street.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • srteet
  • sstreet
  • steret
  • streett
  • stret
  • strete
  • strreet
  • sttreet
  • tsreet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of street - 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.

srteet2sstreet1steret2streett1stret1strete2strreet1sttreet1
Edit distance from "street"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "street"?
"street" is spelled S-T-R-E-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is [stɹiːt].
What does "street" mean?
As a noun, "street" means: städtische oder dörfliche Straße
What words are commonly confused with "street"?
"street" is commonly confused with "sweet", "Streu", "Streit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "street"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "street" is [stɹiːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "street" come from?
"street" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "street", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

spüren#3,400Tonnen#3,404Ritter#3,396Zwecke#3,412

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

üblich9 variantsangeht9 variantsgelöst9 variantsGehalt9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list