südlich
[ˈzyːtlɪç]
The verdict
“südlich” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,541. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,541
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf den Süden, auf Süd bezogen, in der Richtung des Südens
Corpus desk
Index DE-sudlich · südlich · German
südlich · rank #5,541 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,541
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Student
Nearest frequency peer: Student (-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 „südlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Spielzeug
Spielzeug
94,463 corpus weight
- startete
startete
94,462 corpus weight
- Student
Student
94,461 corpus weight
- südlich
südlich
94,460 corpus weight
- teilte
teilte
94,459 corpus weight
- Toilette
Toilette
94,458 corpus weight
What this shows „südlich“ 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 | südlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈzyːtlɪç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „südlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around südlich (IPA [ˈzyːtlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,541 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "auf den Süden, auf Süd bezogen, in der Richtung des Südens".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for südlich, with forms such as "sdülich", "ssüdlich", and "süddlich". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "südliche", "südlichen", "südlicher", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is südlich, spelled S-Ü-D-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1auf den Süden, auf Süd bezogen, in der Richtung des Südens
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how südlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A liegt südlich von B.
„In einer Sammlung mit Augenzeugenberichten fand ich ein Dokument aus dem Jahr 1829, in dem es um ein amerikanisches Sklavenschiff ging, das von der britischen Marine im südlichen Atlantik aufgebracht worden war.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sdülich
- ssüdlich
- süddlich
- südilch
- südlcih
- südlicch
- südlichh
- südlihc
- südllich
- süldich
- üsdlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of südlich - 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 "südlich", 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).