ängstlich
[ˈɛŋstlɪç]
The verdict
“ängstlich” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,015. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,015
- frequency rank, German
- 75
- “Ä” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von Angst ergriffen, erfüllt
Corpus desk
Index DE-angstlich · ängstlich · German
ängstlich · rank #15,015 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,015
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 75
- PHOTO-FINISH Zuwanderer
Nearest frequency peer: Zuwanderer (-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 „ängstlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- zugesprochen
zugesprochen
84,989 corpus weight
- Zutun
Zutun
84,988 corpus weight
- Zuwanderer
Zuwanderer
84,987 corpus weight
- ängstlich
ängstlich
84,986 corpus weight
- überwiegende
überwiegende
84,985 corpus weight
- Überwindung
Überwindung
84,984 corpus weight
What this shows „ängstlich“ 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 | ängstlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɛŋstlɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „ängstlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around ängstlich (IPA [ˈɛŋstlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,015 among 75 “Ä” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for ängstlich, with forms such as "nägstlich", "ägnstlich", and "änggstlich". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "anstrich", "ängstliche", "angeblich", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 ängstlich, spelled Ä-N-G-S-T-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1von Angst ergriffen, erfüllt
- 2peinlich genau, akkurat
- 3nicht so eilig, nicht so genau
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ängstlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„… allmählich verschwanden die Menschen, ich armes Kind irrte ängstlich umher, stand endlich vor der Weidenhecke eines wüsten Bauerhofes und sah dort einen Mann, der mit dem Spaten die Erde aufwühlte, und neben ihm ein häßlich hämisches Weib, das etwas wie einen abgeschnittenen Menschenkopf in der Schürze hielt, …“ (Heinrich Heine:Heinrich Heine: „Ideen.…
Nun sei doch nicht so ängstlich, der Hund tut dir nichts!
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nägstlich
- ägnstlich
- änggstlich
- ängsltich
- ängsstlich
- ängstilch
- ängstlcih
- ängstlicch
- ängstlichh
- ängstlihc
- ängstllich
- ängsttlich
- ängtslich
- änngstlich
- änsgtlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ängstlich - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "ängstlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).