Empfehlung
[ɛmˈp͡feːlʊŋ]
The verdict
“Empfehlung” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,419
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Handlung, die darin besteht, anderen einen Vorschlag zu machen, etwas Bestimmtes zu tun oder zu unterlassen
Corpus desk
Index DE-empfehlung · Empfehlung · German
Empfehlung · rank #4,419 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,419
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH doof
Nearest frequency peer: doof (-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 „Empfehlung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- dicken
dicken
95,585 corpus weight
- doof
doof
95,583 corpus weight
- Empfehlung
Empfehlung
95,582 corpus weight
- empfiehlt
empfiehlt
95,581 corpus weight
- empfohlen
empfohlen
95,580 corpus weight
- Engen
Engen
95,579 corpus weight
What this shows „Empfehlung“ 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 | Empfehlung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛmˈp͡feːlʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Empfehlung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Empfehlung (IPA [ɛmˈp͡feːlʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,419 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Empfehlung, with forms such as "emfpehlung", "emmpfehlung", and "empefhlung". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Empfehlungen", "empfehlen", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Empfehlung, spelled E-M-P-F-E-H-L-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Handlung, die darin besteht, anderen einen Vorschlag zu machen, etwas Bestimmtes zu tun oder zu unterlassen
- 2Unterstützung für jemanden bei dessen Bewerbung
- 3Teil einer Grußformel
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Empfehlung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Empfehlung wäre, dieses Mal direkt in die Vertragswerkstatt zu gehen.
„[…] die Organisatoren [haben] von den Gesundheitsbehörden die Empfehlung erhalten, die Veranstaltung am kommenden Wochenende nicht durchzuführen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emfpehlung
- emmpfehlung
- empefhlung
- empfehhlung
- empfehllung
- empfehlnug
- empfehlugn
- empfehlungg
- empfehlunng
- empfehulng
- empfelhung
- empffehlung
- empfhelung
- emppfehlung
- epmfehlung
- mepfehlung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Empfehlung - 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 "Empfehlung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).