Empfehlungen
[ɛmˈp͡feːlʊŋən]
The verdict
“Empfehlungen” has 19 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,176. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,176
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Empfehlung
Corpus desk
Index DE-empfehlungen · Empfehlungen · German
Empfehlungen · rank #6,176 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #6,176
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 57,060
- PHOTO-FINISH Einschränkung…
Nearest frequency peer: Einschränkungen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Empfehlungen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Dietrich
Dietrich
93,828 corpus weight
- Einheimisch…
Einheimischen
93,827 corpus weight
- Einschränku…
Einschränkungen
93,826 corpus weight
- Empfehlungen
Empfehlungen
93,825 corpus weight
- entdeckte
entdeckte
93,824 corpus weight
- erben
erben
93,823 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Empfehlungen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Empfehlungen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛmˈp͡feːlʊŋən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #6,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Empfehlungen” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around Empfehlungen (IPA [ɛmˈp͡feːlʊŋən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,176 among 57,060 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for Empfehlungen, with forms such as "emfpehlungen", "emmpfehlungen", and "empefhlungen". 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, "Empfehlung", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Empfehlungen, spelled E-M-P-F-E-H-L-U-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Empfehlung
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Empfehlung
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Empfehlung
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Empfehlung
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emfpehlungen
- emmpfehlungen
- empefhlungen
- empfehhlungen
- empfehllungen
- empfehlnugen
- empfehlugnen
- empfehlunegn
- empfehlungenn
- empfehlunggen
- empfehlungne
- empfehlunngen
- empfehulngen
- empfelhungen
- empffehlungen
- empfhelungen
- emppfehlungen
- epmfehlungen
- mepfehlungen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Empfehlungen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Empfehlungen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.