einfallen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,287
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
einfallen is aGermanverb. It means: (unerwünscht oder sogar gewaltsam) eindringen Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯nˌfalən]. It ranks #6,287 in German word frequency. Often confused with einfällt and entfallen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einfallen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nˌfalən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einfallen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nˌfalən]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,287 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for einfallen, with forms such as "eifnallen", "einafllen", and "einfaleln". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "einfällt", "entfallen", "Einhalten", and more, 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 einfallen, spelled E-I-N-F-A-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(unerwünscht oder sogar gewaltsam) eindringen
- 2sich (plötzlich) an etwas erinnern
- 3(Syntax wie [2]) sich etwas Neues ausdenken, das einem (spontan) in den Sinn kommt
- 4in sich zusammenstürzen, in sich zusammenfallen, einstürzen
- 5abmagern, einsinken
- 6Abreißen der laminaren Strömung an einem Segel, beginnend am Vorliek; es gibt dann eine charakteristische Beule im Segel
- 7bei einem Lied, einer Melodie, einem Sprechchor mitmachen, nachdem es begonnen hat
- 8hereinkommen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eifnallen,einafllen,einfaleln,einfalen,einfallenn,einfallne,einffallen,einflalen,einnfallen,enifallen,ienfallen
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for einfallen
Misspelling Variants of "einfallen"
Frequency rank: #6,287 in German
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