umschreiben
[ʊmˈʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]
The verdict
“umschreiben” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,526. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,526
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit anderen Worten wiedergeben
Corpus desk
Index DE-umschreiben · umschreiben · German
umschreiben · rank #27,526 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,526
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Tänzerinnen
Nearest frequency peer: Tänzerinnen (-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 „umschreiben“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- trotzen
trotzen
72,478 corpus weight
- tröstet
tröstet
72,477 corpus weight
- Tänzerinnen
Tänzerinnen
72,476 corpus weight
- umschreiben
umschreiben
72,475 corpus weight
- Umsturz
Umsturz
72,474 corpus weight
- unausweichl…
unausweichlich
72,473 corpus weight
What this shows „umschreiben“ 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 | umschreiben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʊmˈʃʁaɪ̯bn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #27,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „umschreiben“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around umschreiben (IPA [ʊmˈʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,526 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for umschreiben, with forms such as "muschreiben", "umcshreiben", and "ummschreiben". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "umschreibt", "umschrieben", "Umschreibung", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is umschreiben, spelled U-M-S-C-H-R-E-I-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit anderen Worten wiedergeben
- 2ein geeignetes Vieleck, insbesondere ein Dreieck, mit einem Kreis (Umkreis) so einschließen, dass alle Eckpunkte auf der Kreislinie liegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how umschreiben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn ich ein Wort nicht weiß, etwa in einem Gespräch in einer fremden Sprache, kann ich das Gemeinte mit eigenen Worten umschreiben, um mich verständlich zu machen; der andere wird mir dann das Wort sagen.
Das Wort „Hund“ könnte man so umschreiben: Tier mit einem Schwanz, das bellt.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- muschreiben
- umcshreiben
- ummschreiben
- umscchreiben
- umscheriben
- umschhreiben
- umschrebien
- umschreibben
- umschreibenn
- umschreibne
- umschreiebn
- umschrreiben
- umscrheiben
- umshcreiben
- umsschreiben
- usmchreiben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of umschreiben - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "umschreiben", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).