suboptimal
[ˌzʊpʔɔptiˈmaːl]
The verdict
“suboptimal” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #39,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,055
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - nicht ganz perfekt, nicht optimal
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suboptimal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˌzʊpʔɔptiˈmaːl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #39,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “suboptimal” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around suboptimal (IPA [ˌzʊpʔɔptiˈmaːl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,055 among 107,600 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for suboptimal, with forms such as "sbuoptimal", "ssuboptimal", and "subboptimal". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is suboptimal, spelled S-U-B-O-P-T-I-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1nicht ganz perfekt, nicht optimal
- 2überhaupt nicht gut, sehr ungünstig, beschissen
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sbuoptimal,ssuboptimal,subboptimal,subopitmal,subopptimal,suboptiaml,suboptimall,suboptimla,suboptimmal,suboptmial,subopttimal,subotpimal,subpotimal,suobptimal,usboptimal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suboptimal - 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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Using “suboptimal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-U-B-O-P-T-I-M-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.