aufdrehen
[ˈaʊ̯fˌdʁeːən]
The verdict
“aufdrehen” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #41,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,659
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - drehend öffnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-aufdrehen · aufdrehen · German
aufdrehen · rank #41,659 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,659
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Auen
Nearest frequency peer: Auen (-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 „aufdrehen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Atomen
Atomen
58,344 corpus weight
- Auen
Auen
58,343 corpus weight
- aufdrehen
aufdrehen
58,342 corpus weight
- auffrischen
auffrischen
58,341 corpus weight
- Aufsichtsbe…
Aufsichtsbehörden
58,340 corpus weight
- auftauen
auftauen
58,339 corpus weight
What this shows „aufdrehen“ 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 | aufdrehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fˌdʁeːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „aufdrehen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around aufdrehen (IPA [ˈaʊ̯fˌdʁeːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,659 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for aufdrehen, with forms such as "afudrehen", "audfrehen", and "aufddrehen". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "aufregen", "Aufsehen", "aufgehen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 aufdrehen, spelled A-U-F-D-R-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1drehend öffnen
- 2mit einem Regler nach oben schalten, so dass es zu einem Mehr von etwas kommt oder eine Funktion (Licht, Gas) in Betrieb setzen
- 3die aufzuwendende Kraft erhöhen
- 4in Stimmung kommen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aufdrehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kannst du mir bitte die Flasche aufdrehen?
Er drehte die Musik voll auf.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afudrehen
- audfrehen
- aufddrehen
- aufderhen
- aufdreehn
- aufdrehenn
- aufdrehhen
- aufdrehne
- aufdrheen
- aufdrrehen
- auffdrehen
- aufrdehen
- uafdrehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aufdrehen - 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 "aufdrehen", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).