Axel
[ˈaksl̩]
The verdict
“Axel” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,342
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sprung mit einer Drehung, der vorwärts von der Außenkante des linken Fußes ausgeführt und mit dem Aufsetzen rückwärts mit der Außenkante des rechten Fußes beendet wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-axel · Axel · German
Axel · rank #5,342 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,342
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH ausländischen
Nearest frequency peer: ausländischen (-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 „Axel“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- angeschloss…
angeschlossen
94,662 corpus weight
- Arbeitsplatz
Arbeitsplatz
94,661 corpus weight
- ausländisch…
ausländischen
94,660 corpus weight
- Axel
Axel
94,659 corpus weight
- Bedürfnisse
Bedürfnisse
94,658 corpus weight
- Begleitung
Begleitung
94,657 corpus weight
What this shows „Axel“ 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 | Axel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaksl̩] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Axel“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Axel (IPA [ˈaksl̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,342 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sprung mit einer Drehung, der vorwärts von der Außenkante des linken Fußes ausgeführt und mit dem Aufsetzen rückwärts mit der Außenkante des rechten Fußes beendet wird".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Axel, with forms such as "aexl", "axell", and "axle". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Axt", "Aye", "ae", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Axel, spelled A-X-E-L.
Definition
- 1Sprung mit einer Drehung, der vorwärts von der Außenkante des linken Fußes ausgeführt und mit dem Aufsetzen rückwärts mit der Außenkante des rechten Fußes beendet wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Axel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Axel wird von vorwärts abgesprungen, alle anderen von rückwärts. Beim Axel springt man vom linken und beim Toeloop vom rechten Bein ab.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aexl
- axell
- axle
- axxel
- xael
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Axel - 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 "Axel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).