ähnlich
[ˈɛːnlɪç]
The verdict
“ähnlich” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,049. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,049
- frequency rank, German
- 75
- “Ä” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in manchem übereinstimmend, teilweise analog
Corpus desk
Index DE-ahnlich · ähnlich · German
ähnlich · rank #1,049 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,049
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 75
- PHOTO-FINISH wollten
Nearest frequency peer: wollten (-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 „ähnlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verstehe
verstehe
98,955 corpus weight
- veröffentli…
veröffentlicht
98,954 corpus weight
- wollten
wollten
98,953 corpus weight
- ähnlich
ähnlich
98,952 corpus weight
- Bank
Bank
98,951 corpus weight
- Beitrag
Beitrag
98,950 corpus weight
What this shows „ähnlich“ 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 | ähnlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɛːnlɪç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „ähnlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ähnlich (IPA [ˈɛːnlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,049 among 75 “Ä” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ähnlich, with forms such as "hänlich", "ähhnlich", and "ählnich". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "amtlich", "ähnliche", "ähnlichen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ähnlich, spelled Ä-H-N-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1in manchem übereinstimmend, teilweise analog
- 2wie [1] in der Funktion einer Präposition mit dem Dativ
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ähnlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vater und Sohn sind sich sehr ähnlich.
Dein Kind sieht dir sehr ähnlich.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hänlich
- ähhnlich
- ählnich
- ähnilch
- ähnlcih
- ähnlicch
- ähnlichh
- ähnlihc
- ähnllich
- ähnnlich
- änhlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ähnlich - 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 "ähnlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).