Ehrenamtlicher
[ˈeːʁənˌʔamtlɪçɐ]
The verdict
“Ehrenamtlicher” has 22 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,253
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die unentgeltlich ein Ehrenamt ausübt
Corpus desk
Index DE-ehrenamtlicher · Ehrenamtlicher · German
Ehrenamtlicher · rank #27,253 · 22 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,253
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Egger
Nearest frequency peer: Egger (-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 „Ehrenamtlicher“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- durchgespie…
durchgespielt
72,750 corpus weight
- Egger
Egger
72,749 corpus weight
- Ehrenamtlic…
Ehrenamtlicher
72,748 corpus weight
- Ehrenmann
Ehrenmann
72,747 corpus weight
- Eichstätt
Eichstätt
72,746 corpus weight
- eidgenössis…
eidgenössischen
72,745 corpus weight
What this shows „Ehrenamtlicher“ 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 | Ehrenamtlicher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈeːʁənˌʔamtlɪçɐ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #27,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Ehrenamtlicher“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around Ehrenamtlicher (IPA [ˈeːʁənˌʔamtlɪçɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,253 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die unentgeltlich ein Ehrenamt ausübt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ehrenamtlicher, with forms such as "ehernamtlicher", "ehhrenamtlicher", and "ehreanmtlicher". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ehrenamtliches", "ehrenamtlich", "Ehrenamtliche", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Ehrenamtlicher, spelled E-H-R-E-N-A-M-T-L-I-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die unentgeltlich ein Ehrenamt ausübt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ehrenamtlicher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Tausende Ehrenamtliche in der ganzen Welt beweisen jeden Tag, dass die Idee des Freien Wissens funktioniert.“
[…] „ein schmaler, ausgehungerter Igel [darf] auf keinen Fall auf eigene Faust gefüttert werden. Stattdessen sollte stets die Hilfe von erfahrenen Ehrenamtlichen gesucht werden.“
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehernamtlicher
- ehhrenamtlicher
- ehreanmtlicher
- ehrenamlticher
- ehrenammtlicher
- ehrenamtilcher
- ehrenamtlciher
- ehrenamtliccher
- ehrenamtlicehr
- ehrenamtlicherr
- ehrenamtlichher
- ehrenamtlichre
- ehrenamtlihcer
- ehrenamtllicher
- ehrenamttlicher
- ehrenatmlicher
- ehrenmatlicher
- ehrennamtlicher
- ehrneamtlicher
- ehrrenamtlicher
- erhenamtlicher
- herenamtlicher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ehrenamtlicher - 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 "Ehrenamtlicher", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).