Swing
[svɪŋ]
The verdict
“Swing” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,683. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,683
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - besonderer Rhythmus von Jazz und Tanzmusik
Corpus desk
Index DE-swing · Swing · German
Swing · rank #14,683 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,683
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Subventionen
Nearest frequency peer: Subventionen (-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 „Swing“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Stützpunkt
Stützpunkt
85,321 corpus weight
- subjektiv
subjektiv
85,320 corpus weight
- Subventionen
Subventionen
85,319 corpus weight
- Swing
Swing
85,318 corpus weight
- Tablets
Tablets
85,317 corpus weight
- Teresa
Teresa
85,316 corpus weight
What this shows „Swing“ 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 | Swing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [svɪŋ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Swing“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Swing (IPA [svɪŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,683 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Swing, with forms such as "siwng", "sswing", and "swign". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Swiss", "Swinger", "sin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Swing, spelled S-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1besonderer Rhythmus von Jazz und Tanzmusik
- 2Stilrichtung des Jazz vor allem der 1930er/1940er Jahre
- 3Tanzstil, der in den 1930ern in den USA populär war und der zu der Musikrichtung Swing getanzt wurde
- 4Kreditrahmen eines Landes beim Geschäftspartner
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Swing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Für sie sind die Plattenaufnahmen vorerst nur ein Mittel, um bekannter zu werden und mehr Engagements in den Clubs zu bekommen, dort, wo der Swing entsteht und geschmiedet wird, im Feuer der sich verzehrenden Seelen.“
„Deutsche Combos spielten meist den populären Swing und bewegten sich häufig am Rande des Erlaubten.“
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- siwng
- sswing
- swign
- swingg
- swinng
- swnig
- swwing
- wsing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Swing - 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 "Swing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).