empfehle
[ɛmˈp͡feːlə]
The verdict
“empfehle” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,290
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs empfehlen
Corpus desk
Index DE-empfehle · empfehle · German
empfehle · rank #6,290 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,290
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Einschränkung
Nearest frequency peer: Einschränkung (-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 „empfehle“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- einfallen
einfallen
93,714 corpus weight
- Einleitung
Einleitung
93,713 corpus weight
- Einschränku…
Einschränkung
93,712 corpus weight
- empfehle
empfehle
93,711 corpus weight
- Enkel
Enkel
93,710 corpus weight
- Ergänzung
Ergänzung
93,709 corpus weight
What this shows „empfehle“ 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 | empfehle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛmˈp͡feːlə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „empfehle“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around empfehle (IPA [ɛmˈp͡feːlə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,290 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for empfehle, with forms such as "emfpehle", "emmpfehle", and "empefhle". 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, "empfehlen", "empfiehlt", "empfohlen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is empfehle, spelled E-M-P-F-E-H-L-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs empfehlen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs empfehlen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs empfehlen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emfpehle
- emmpfehle
- empefhle
- empfehel
- empfehhle
- empfehlle
- empfelhe
- empffehle
- empfhele
- emppfehle
- epmfehle
- mepfehle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empfehle - 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 "empfehle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).