Alf
[alf]
The verdict
“Alf” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,607) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,607
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sagenhafter Vogel mit feurigem Schweif (Ostpreußen)
Corpus desk
Index DE-alf · Alf · German
Alf · rank #22,607 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,607
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH ale
Nearest frequency peer: ale (-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 „Alf“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- akuter
akuter
77,397 corpus weight
- akzeptierte
akzeptierte
77,396 corpus weight
- ale
ale
77,395 corpus weight
- Alf
Alf
77,394 corpus weight
- Alina
Alina
77,393 corpus weight
- Allergien
Allergien
77,392 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Alf“ 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 | Alf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alf] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Alf“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Alf is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [alf]. Frequency #22,607 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "sagenhafter Vogel mit feurigem Schweif (Ostpreußen)".
No misspelling variants are generated for Alf in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Alf, spelled A-L-F.
Definition
- 1sagenhafter Vogel mit feurigem Schweif (Ostpreußen)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Alf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei Venedien hat sich früher ein Alf herumgetrieben.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).