egli
[ˈeʎʎi]
The verdict
“egli” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,875) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,875
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - er
Corpus desk
Index DE-egli · egli · German
egli · rank #45,875 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,875
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH effektives
Nearest frequency peer: effektives (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „egli“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Ebenbild
Ebenbild
54,129 corpus weight
- effektives
effektives
54,127 corpus weight
- egli
egli
54,126 corpus weight
- Egypt
Egypt
54,125 corpus weight
- ehrwürdigen
ehrwürdigen
54,124 corpus weight
- Eichendorff
Eichendorff
54,123 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „egli“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | egli |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈeʎʎi] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „egli“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for egli is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ei", "elf", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ˈeʎʎi]. Frequency #45,875 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "er".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for egli, with forms such as "eggli", "eglli", and "elgi". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ei", "elf", "ego", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is egli, spelled E-G-L-I.
Definition
- 1er
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eggli
- eglli
- elgi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of egli - 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 "egli", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).