blicken
[ˈblɪkn̩]
The verdict
“blicken” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,068
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - seinen Blick auf jemanden/etwas wenden und es bewusst wahrnehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-blicken · blicken · German
blicken · rank #5,068 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,068
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bilanz
Nearest frequency peer: Bilanz (-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 „blicken“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Beschäftigte
Beschäftigte
94,936 corpus weight
- beschäftigt…
beschäftigten
94,935 corpus weight
- Bilanz
Bilanz
94,934 corpus weight
- blicken
blicken
94,933 corpus weight
- blue
blue
94,932 corpus weight
- Budget
Budget
94,931 corpus weight
What this shows „blicken“ 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 | blicken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈblɪkn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „blicken“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around blicken (IPA [ˈblɪkn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,068 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for blicken, with forms such as "bblicken", "bilcken", and "blciken". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blickt", "bücken", "blieben", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is blicken, spelled B-L-I-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1seinen Blick auf jemanden/etwas wenden und es bewusst wahrnehmen
- 2kapieren, etwas verstehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blicken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er blickte mir nur kurz ins Gesicht, dann verschwand er.
„Mit Radaraugen soll das Fluggerät der europäischen Weltraumbehörde Esa dann auf die Eisflächen des Planeten blicken.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblicken
- bilcken
- blciken
- bliccken
- blicekn
- blickenn
- blickken
- blickne
- blikcen
- bllicken
- lbicken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blicken - 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 "blicken", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).