Stückchen
[ˈʃtʏkçən]
The verdict
“Stückchen” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,177. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,177
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleiner Teil von etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-stuckchen · Stückchen · German
Stückchen · rank #12,177 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,177
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stadtwerke
Nearest frequency peer: Stadtwerke (-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 „Stückchen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sorgten
sorgten
87,827 corpus weight
- Spree
Spree
87,826 corpus weight
- Stadtwerke
Stadtwerke
87,825 corpus weight
- Stückchen
Stückchen
87,824 corpus weight
- Sultan
Sultan
87,823 corpus weight
- Söder
Söder
87,822 corpus weight
What this shows „Stückchen“ 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 | Stückchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʏkçən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Stückchen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Stückchen (IPA [ˈʃtʏkçən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,177 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Stückchen, with forms such as "sstückchen", "stcükchen", and "sttückchen". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Stücken", "Stöckchen", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Stückchen, spelled S-T-Ü-C-K-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1kleiner Teil von etwas
- 2kleine, unbestimmte Menge
- 3süßes Kleingebäck
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stückchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gibst du mir noch ein Stückchen Brot?
„Ein Stückchen weiter weg, fast so weit, daß er sie gerade eben noch sehen konnte, traten zwei Gestalten auf den Straßenrand; dann drehten sie sich um und kamen, auf dem Rain entlanggehend, auf ihn zu.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sstückchen
- stcükchen
- sttückchen
- stücckchen
- stücckhen
- stückcchen
- stückcehn
- stückchenn
- stückchhen
- stückchne
- stückhcen
- stückkchen
- stükcchen
- sütckchen
- tsückchen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Stückchen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Stückchen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).