affairs
[əˈfɛəz]
The verdict
“affairs” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,943
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs affair
Corpus desk
Index DE-affairs · affairs · German
affairs · rank #37,943 · 8 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,943
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Affekt
Nearest frequency peer: Affekt (+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 „affairs“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- abtauchen
abtauchen
62,061 corpus weight
- adventures
adventures
62,060 corpus weight
- affairs
affairs
62,058 corpus weight
- Affekt
Affekt
62,057 corpus weight
- Agrarpolitik
Agrarpolitik
62,056 corpus weight
- Ahne
Ahne
62,055 corpus weight
What this shows „affairs“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affairs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [əˈfɛəz] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „affairs“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around affairs (IPA [əˈfɛəz]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,943 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs affair".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for affairs, with forms such as "afafirs", "afairs", and "affairrs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is affairs, spelled A-F-F-A-I-R-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs affair
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afafirs
- afairs
- affairrs
- affairss
- affaisr
- affaris
- affiars
- fafairs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affairs - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).