dreimal

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for dreimal is 7 letters long, classified as anum, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdʁaɪ̯maːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,032 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mit drei vervielfacht; zweimal und ein weiteres Mal; dreifach vorgekommen, durchgeführt".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for dreimal, with forms such as "ddreimal", "derimal", and "dreiaml". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "diesmal", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is dreimal, spelled D-R-E-I-M-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.