Arier
[ˈaːʁiɐ]
The verdict
“Arier” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #43,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,011
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Selbstbezeichnung mehrerer Volksgruppen in Vorder- und Mittelasien
Corpus desk
Index DE-arier · Arier · German
Arier · rank #43,011 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,011
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Arafat
Nearest frequency peer: Arafat (-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 „Arier“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Anschauungen
Anschauungen
56,994 corpus weight
- anzuführen
anzuführen
56,992 corpus weight
- Arafat
Arafat
56,991 corpus weight
- Arier
Arier
56,990 corpus weight
- aromatischen
aromatischen
56,988 corpus weight
- asymmetrisc…
asymmetrische
56,987 corpus weight
What this shows „Arier“ 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 | Arier |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːʁiɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Arier“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Arier (IPA [ˈaːʁiɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,011 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Arier, with forms such as "airer", "areir", and "arierr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "arme", "arte", "Arne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Arier, spelled A-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Selbstbezeichnung mehrerer Volksgruppen in Vorder- und Mittelasien
- 2Bezeichnung für Menschen mit körperlichen Merkmalen, die unter Anhängern der Rassentheorie als besonders edel galten
- 3Angehöriger der indoiranischen Sprachgruppe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Arier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Begriff "Iran" leitet sich vom mittelpersischen "eran" ab. "Eran Shahr" meint das "Land der Arier" und geht auf den Nomadenstamm der Arier zurück, der etwa 1000 v. Chr. in das persische Hochland eingewandert ist.“
Die Nationalsozialisten sahen sich als Arier und betrachteten alle anderen Völker als minderwertig.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- airer
- areir
- arierr
- arire
- arrier
- raier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Arier - 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 "Arier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).