ehemalig

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ehemalig is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeːəˌmaːlɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,461 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "nicht mehr existent oder nicht mehr bestehend".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ehemalig, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is ehemalig, spelled E-H-E-M-A-L-I-G.