String
[stʁɪŋ]
The verdict
“String” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,735. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,735
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sehr knappe Slip-/ Höschenform; Stringtanga
Corpus desk
Index DE-string · String · German
String · rank #17,735 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,735
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH streiken
Nearest frequency peer: streiken (-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 „String“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Strafverfol…
Strafverfolgung
82,268 corpus weight
- streiken
streiken
82,267 corpus weight
- String
String
82,266 corpus weight
- Stute
Stute
82,265 corpus weight
- Swift
Swift
82,264 corpus weight
- Symptomen
Symptomen
82,263 corpus weight
What this shows „String“ 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 | String |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [stʁɪŋ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „String“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around String (IPA [stʁɪŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,735 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for String, with forms such as "srting", "sstring", and "stirng". 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, "Swing", "strip", "strong", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is String, spelled S-T-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1sehr knappe Slip-/ Höschenform; Stringtanga
- 2eine Folge von Zeichen (aus einen Zeichensatz); Zeichenkette
- 3fundamentales Objekt in der Stringtheorie, welches als eindimensional angenommen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how String appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frauen im String bringen junge Männer im Freibad fast um den Verstand.
Der String enthielt nur Zahlen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srting
- sstring
- stirng
- strign
- stringg
- strinng
- strnig
- strring
- sttring
- tsring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of String - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "String", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).