anführen
[ˈanˌfyːʁən]
The verdict
“anführen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,799. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,799
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Gruppe von Personen oder etwas leiten
Corpus desk
Index DE-anfuhren · anführen · German
anführen · rank #18,799 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,799
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH andauernden
Nearest frequency peer: andauernden (-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 „anführen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Altern
Altern
81,205 corpus weight
- always
always
81,204 corpus weight
- andauernden
andauernden
81,203 corpus weight
- anführen
anführen
81,202 corpus weight
- angebunden
angebunden
81,201 corpus weight
- angemacht
angemacht
81,200 corpus weight
What this shows „anführen“ 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 | anführen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌfyːʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „anführen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around anführen (IPA [ˈanˌfyːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,799 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for anführen, with forms such as "afnühren", "anfführen", and "anfhüren". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Anführer", "anrühren", "ausführen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 anführen, spelled A-N-F-Ü-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Gruppe von Personen oder etwas leiten
- 2Worte/Gedanken/Ideen, die es bereits gibt, erneut (wortgetreu) wiedergeben
- 3Argumente/Erklärung vorbringen
- 4jemanden auf freundliche Art täuschen, hinters Licht führen, was meist direkt im Anschluss bekannt wird
- 5in Anführungszeichen setzen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anführen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aemilius führt die Römer an.
Die Blankeneser Klubchefin führt die Polonäse an.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afnühren
- anfführen
- anfhüren
- anfühern
- anfühhren
- anführenn
- anführne
- anführren
- anfürhen
- annführen
- anüfhren
- naführen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anführen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "anführen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).