umsichtig
[ˈʊmˌzɪçtɪç]
The verdict
“umsichtig” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #45,640. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,640
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vorausschauend, überlegt, mit Bedacht handelnd
Corpus desk
Index DE-umsichtig · umsichtig · German
umsichtig · rank #45,640 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #45,640
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Umschrift
Nearest frequency peer: Umschrift (-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 „umsichtig“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Umbaus
Umbaus
54,364 corpus weight
- umschreibt
umschreibt
54,363 corpus weight
- Umschrift
Umschrift
54,362 corpus weight
- umsichtig
umsichtig
54,361 corpus weight
- umstimmen
umstimmen
54,360 corpus weight
- unablässig
unablässig
54,359 corpus weight
What this shows „umsichtig“ 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 | umsichtig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊmˌzɪçtɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „umsichtig“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around umsichtig (IPA [ˈʊmˌzɪçtɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,640 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "vorausschauend, überlegt, mit Bedacht handelnd".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for umsichtig, with forms such as "musichtig", "umischtig", and "ummsichtig". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "unwichtig", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is umsichtig, spelled U-M-S-I-C-H-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1vorausschauend, überlegt, mit Bedacht handelnd
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how umsichtig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der umsichtige Mitarbeiter entdeckte den Fehler, bevor ein Unglück passieren konnte.
„Die gedankliche Auseinandersetzung mit dieser Frage wird vom Reiseleiter in der Weise geschickt eingeleitet, dass er die umsichtige Leistung des Fahrers nochmals hervorhebt und dabei beschreibt, dass es sich in der Türkei gehöre, sich persönlich zu bedanken.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- musichtig
- umischtig
- ummsichtig
- umscihtig
- umsicchtig
- umsichhtig
- umsichitg
- umsichtgi
- umsichtigg
- umsichttig
- umsicthig
- umsihctig
- umssichtig
- usmichtig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of umsichtig - 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 "umsichtig", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).