5
[fʏnf]
The verdict
“5” sits in 2 confusable pairs (corpus #158) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #158
- 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 Fünf darstellt
Corpus desk
Index DE-5 · 5 · German
5 · rank #158 · 0 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #158
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "5" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH sondern
Nearest frequency peer: sondern (-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 „5“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- gerade
gerade
99,846 corpus weight
- neue
neue
99,845 corpus weight
- sondern
sondern
99,844 corpus weight
- 5
5
99,843 corpus weight
- erst
erst
99,842 corpus weight
- ersten
ersten
99,841 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „5“ 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 | 5 |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [fʏnf] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „5“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 5 is neighbouring look-alikes ("5G", "fünf"), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [fʏnf]. Frequency #158. Gloss: "eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Fünf darstellt".
No misspelling variants are generated for 5 in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "5G", "fünf", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is 5, spelled 5.
Definition
- 1eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Fünf darstellt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 5 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich will mir einen Golf 5 kaufen.
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.