Empfänger
[ɛmˈp͡fɛŋɐ]
The verdict
“Empfänger” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,477
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die etwas empfängt, bekommt, erhält, entgegennimmt; jemand, der etwas in Empfang nimmt
Corpus desk
Index DE-empfanger · Empfänger · German
Empfänger · rank #5,477 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,477
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Elektrische
Nearest frequency peer: Elektrische (-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 „Empfänger“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Ecken
Ecken
94,527 corpus weight
- eigenem
eigenem
94,526 corpus weight
- Elektrische
Elektrische
94,525 corpus weight
- Empfänger
Empfänger
94,524 corpus weight
- Experiment
Experiment
94,523 corpus weight
- freilich
freilich
94,521 corpus weight
What this shows „Empfänger“ 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 | Empfänger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛmˈp͡fɛŋɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Empfänger“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Empfänger (IPA [ɛmˈp͡fɛŋɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,477 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Empfänger, with forms such as "emfpänger", "emmpfänger", and "empffänger". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "empfingen", "Empfängern", "Empfängers", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Empfänger, spelled E-M-P-F-Ä-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die etwas empfängt, bekommt, erhält, entgegennimmt; jemand, der etwas in Empfang nimmt
- 2Gerät, das Signale empfängt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Empfänger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Empfänger des Briefes muss für den unfrankierten Brief Strafporto zahlen.
„Es ist undenkbar, daß sich in einem solchen Augenblick der Empfänger einer Wohltat nicht ebenfalls entschlossen fühlt, alles in seinen Kräften Stehende zu tun, um den zu beglücken, der so bereitwillig zu seinem Glück beigetragen hat.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emfpänger
- emmpfänger
- empffänger
- empfnäger
- empfägner
- empfänegr
- empfängerr
- empfängger
- empfängre
- empfännger
- emppfänger
- empäfnger
- epmfänger
- mepfänger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Empfänger - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Empfänger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).