4
[fiːɐ̯]
The verdict
“4” sits in 2 confusable pairs (corpus #150) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #150
- frequency rank, German
- 1
- letter
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Vier darstellt
Corpus desk
Index DE-4 · 4 · German
4 · rank #150 · 0 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #150
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "4" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH wurden
Nearest frequency peer: wurden (-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 „4“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- diesem
diesem
99,854 corpus weight
- dieses
dieses
99,853 corpus weight
- wurden
wurden
99,852 corpus weight
- 4
4
99,851 corpus weight
- dabei
dabei
99,850 corpus weight
- A
A
99,849 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „4“ 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 | 4 |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [fiːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „4“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 4 is neighbouring look-alikes ("4D", "vier"), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [fiːɐ̯]. Frequency #150. Gloss: "eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Vier darstellt".
No generated misspelling entries exist for 4 in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "4D", "vier", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is 4, spelled 4.
Definition
- 1eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Vier darstellt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 4 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier ist die Hausnummer 4.
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.