aufgefangen
[ˈaʊ̯fɡəˌfaŋən]
The verdict
“aufgefangen” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,243
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs auffangen
Corpus desk
Index DE-aufgefangen · aufgefangen · German
aufgefangen · rank #24,243 · 16 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,243
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH AStA
Nearest frequency peer: AStA (-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 „aufgefangen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Arie
Arie
75,762 corpus weight
- asset
asset
75,760 corpus weight
- AStA
AStA
75,759 corpus weight
- aufgefangen
aufgefangen
75,758 corpus weight
- ausgerichte…
ausgerichtete
75,757 corpus weight
- ausgestellt…
ausgestellten
75,756 corpus weight
What this shows „aufgefangen“ 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 | aufgefangen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fɡəˌfaŋən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „aufgefangen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around aufgefangen (IPA [ˈaʊ̯fɡəˌfaŋən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,243 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs auffangen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for aufgefangen, with forms such as "afugefangen", "aufegfangen", and "auffgefangen". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "ausgegangen", "aufgefunden", "aufgegangen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 aufgefangen, spelled A-U-F-G-E-F-A-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs auffangen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afugefangen
- aufegfangen
- auffgefangen
- aufgeafngen
- aufgefagnen
- aufgefanegn
- aufgefangenn
- aufgefanggen
- aufgefangne
- aufgefanngen
- aufgeffangen
- aufgefnagen
- aufgfeangen
- aufggefangen
- augfefangen
- uafgefangen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aufgefangen - 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 "aufgefangen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).