empfinden
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,700
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
empfinden is aGermanverb. It means: mit den menschlichen Sinnen (etwas) wahrnehmen Pronounced [ɛmˈp͡fɪndn̩]. It ranks #5,700 in German word frequency. Often confused with erfinden and empfunden.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empfinden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛmˈp͡fɪndn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for empfinden is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛmˈp͡fɪndn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,700 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for empfinden, with forms such as "emfpinden", "emmpfinden", and "empffinden". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "erfinden", "empfunden", "empfindet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is empfinden, spelled E-M-P-F-I-N-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit den menschlichen Sinnen (etwas) wahrnehmen
- 2ein bestimmtes Gefühl erleben
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emfpinden,emmpfinden,empffinden,empfidnen,empfindden,empfindenn,empfindne,empfinedn,empfinnden,empfniden,empifnden,emppfinden,epmfinden,mepfinden
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for empfinden
Misspelling Variants of "empfinden"
Frequency rank: #5,700 in German
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