Symptom
[zʏmpˈtoːm]
The verdict
“Symptom” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,947. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,947
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas, das auf etwas anderes schließen lässt
Corpus desk
Index DE-symptom · Symptom · German
Symptom · rank #14,947 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,947
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH symbolisch
Nearest frequency peer: symbolisch (-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 „Symptom“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- streicht
streicht
85,057 corpus weight
- Sushi
Sushi
85,056 corpus weight
- symbolisch
symbolisch
85,055 corpus weight
- Symptom
Symptom
85,054 corpus weight
- Tauber
Tauber
85,053 corpus weight
- Techno
Techno
85,052 corpus weight
What this shows „Symptom“ 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 | Symptom |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zʏmpˈtoːm] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Symptom“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Symptom (IPA [zʏmpˈtoːm]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,947 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Symptom, with forms such as "smyptom", "ssymptom", and "symmptom". 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, "Symptome", "Symptomen", 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 Symptom, spelled S-Y-M-P-T-O-M.
Definition
- 1etwas, das auf etwas anderes schließen lässt
- 2Ausdrucksseite (Signifiant, Signifikant) eines sprachlichen Zeichens in seiner Funktion, Rückschlüsse auf den Sprecher/Schreiber zuzulassen
- 3Anzeichen einer bereits vorhandenen oder sich anbahnenden Krankheit
- 4Erscheinungsform eines Fehlers
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Symptom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man kann den Verlauf der Börsenkurse als Symptom für den Zustand der Finanzmärkte interpretieren.
„Die Schieflage in der Auseinandersetzung mit Rechts- und Linksextremismus ist ein Symptom, das ebenso auf andere gesellschaftliche Bereiche zutrifft.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smyptom
- ssymptom
- symmptom
- sympotm
- sympptom
- symptmo
- symptomm
- sympttom
- symtpom
- sypmtom
- syymptom
- ysmptom
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Symptom - 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 "Symptom", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).