Delhi
[ˈdeːli]
The verdict
“Delhi” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,864
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - indische Metropole, zu der auch die Hauptstadt Neu-Delhi gehört
Corpus desk
Index DE-delhi · Delhi · German
Delhi · rank #19,864 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,864
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH deins
Nearest frequency peer: deins (-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 „Delhi“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Darbietung
Darbietung
80,140 corpus weight
- deins
deins
80,138 corpus weight
- Delhi
Delhi
80,137 corpus weight
- delle
delle
80,136 corpus weight
- Denkmals
Denkmals
80,135 corpus weight
- Dessous
Dessous
80,134 corpus weight
What this shows „Delhi“ 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 | Delhi |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈdeːli] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Delhi“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Delhi (IPA [ˈdeːli]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,864 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "indische Metropole, zu der auch die Hauptstadt Neu-Delhi gehört".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Delhi, with forms such as "ddelhi", "dehli", and "delhhi". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "dell", "demi", "della", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Delhi, spelled D-E-L-H-I.
Definition
- 1indische Metropole, zu der auch die Hauptstadt Neu-Delhi gehört
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddelhi
- dehli
- delhhi
- delih
- dellhi
- dlehi
- edlhi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Delhi - 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 "Delhi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).