empfänglich
[ɛmˈp͡fɛŋlɪç]
The verdict
“empfänglich” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,018
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - für bestimmte Anregungen oder Eindrücke offen; bereit, neue Eindrücke, Empfindungen und Anregungen aufzunehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-empfanglich · empfänglich · German
empfänglich · rank #32,018 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,018
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Engländern
Nearest frequency peer: Engländern (+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 „empfänglich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Einstand
Einstand
67,986 corpus weight
- einvernehml…
einvernehmlich
67,985 corpus weight
- empfänglich
empfänglich
67,983 corpus weight
- Engländern
Engländern
67,982 corpus weight
- Entwicklung…
Entwicklungsländer
67,981 corpus weight
- erschrecken…
erschreckende
67,980 corpus weight
What this shows „empfänglich“ 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 | empfänglich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɛmˈp͡fɛŋlɪç] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #32,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „empfänglich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around empfänglich (IPA [ɛmˈp͡fɛŋlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,018 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "für bestimmte Anregungen oder Eindrücke offen; bereit, neue Eindrücke, Empfindungen und Anregungen aufzunehmen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for empfänglich, with forms such as "emfpänglich", "emmpfänglich", and "empffänglich". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "empfindlich", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is empfänglich, spelled E-M-P-F-Ä-N-G-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1für bestimmte Anregungen oder Eindrücke offen; bereit, neue Eindrücke, Empfindungen und Anregungen aufzunehmen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empfänglich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man soll für neue Impulse empfänglich sein.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emfpänglich
- emmpfänglich
- empffänglich
- empfnäglich
- empfägnlich
- empfängglich
- empfängilch
- empfänglcih
- empfänglicch
- empfänglichh
- empfänglihc
- empfängllich
- empfänlgich
- empfännglich
- emppfänglich
- empäfnglich
- epmfänglich
- mepfänglich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empfänglich - 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 "empfänglich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).