1er
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The verdict
“1er” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,274) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,274
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dem zweiten vorangehend; 1.
Corpus desk
Index DE-1er · 1er · German
1er · rank #26,274 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,274
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "1" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH überziehen
Nearest frequency peer: überziehen (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „1er“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- überragende
überragende
73,731 corpus weight
- überwindet
überwindet
73,729 corpus weight
- überziehen
überziehen
73,728 corpus weight
- 1er
1er
73,727 corpus weight
- abbas
abbas
73,724 corpus weight
- abbringen
abbringen
73,723 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „1er“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | 1er |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „1er“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 1er is neighbouring look-alikes ("of", "ii", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced […]. Frequency #26,274. Gloss: "dem zweiten vorangehend; 1.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for 1er, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "ii", "TO", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 1er, spelled 1-E-R.
Definition
- 1dem zweiten vorangehend; 1.
Synonyms
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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