Aufwind
[ˈaʊ̯fvɪnt]
The verdict
“Aufwind” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,202
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aufsteigende Luftbewegung
Corpus desk
Index DE-aufwind · Aufwind · German
Aufwind · rank #27,202 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,202
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH aufpasst
Nearest frequency peer: aufpasst (-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 „Aufwind“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Attribut
Attribut
72,803 corpus weight
- aufgenommene
aufgenommene
72,802 corpus weight
- aufpasst
aufpasst
72,800 corpus weight
- Aufwind
Aufwind
72,799 corpus weight
- aufzubringen
aufzubringen
72,798 corpus weight
- Augenschein
Augenschein
72,797 corpus weight
What this shows „Aufwind“ 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 | Aufwind |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fvɪnt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Aufwind“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Aufwind (IPA [ˈaʊ̯fvɪnt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,202 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Aufwind, with forms such as "afuwind", "auffwind", and "aufiwnd". 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, "Aufwand", "aufwies", "aufging", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Aufwind, spelled A-U-F-W-I-N-D.
Definition
- 1aufsteigende Luftbewegung
- 2neuer Schwung, Fortschritt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aufwind appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Deltafliegen stellt besonders hohe Ansprüche an die körperliche Leistungsfähigkeit, die physisch-technische Kompetenz, die Geländebeurteilung, das Erspüren von Aufwinden.“
„Bald einmal gehörten die Deltaflieger so selbstverständlich zum Himmel über Vaduz wie die Bussarde und Milane, mit denen sie gemeinsam die Aufwinde nützen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afuwind
- auffwind
- aufiwnd
- aufwidn
- aufwindd
- aufwinnd
- aufwnid
- aufwwind
- auwfind
- uafwind
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Aufwind - 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 "Aufwind", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).