Empirie
[ɛmpiˈʁiː]
The verdict
“Empirie” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,108. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,108
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die rein wissenschaftlich, also auf methodischem Weg, gewonnene Erfahrung, Erfahrungserkenntnis
Corpus desk
Index DE-empirie · Empirie · German
Empirie · rank #48,108 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,108
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Energiespeich…
Nearest frequency peer: Energiespeicher (+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 „Empirie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- einzusperren
einzusperren
51,897 corpus weight
- elementarer
elementarer
51,895 corpus weight
- Empirie
Empirie
51,893 corpus weight
- Energiespei…
Energiespeicher
51,892 corpus weight
- Enklave
Enklave
51,891 corpus weight
- entsandte
entsandte
51,890 corpus weight
What this shows „Empirie“ 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 | Empirie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛmpiˈʁiː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Empirie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Empirie (IPA [ɛmpiˈʁiː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,108 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "die rein wissenschaftlich, also auf methodischem Weg, gewonnene Erfahrung, Erfahrungserkenntnis".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Empirie, with forms such as "emiprie", "emmpirie", and "empiire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "empörte", "empire", "empires", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Empirie, spelled E-M-P-I-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1die rein wissenschaftlich, also auf methodischem Weg, gewonnene Erfahrung, Erfahrungserkenntnis
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Empirie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Empirie ist ein wesentliches Mittel, um Wissen zu erwerben.
„Lampe, inzwischen wirklich ein Mann der Empirie, faßt, als ihn keiner beobachtet, die Eisenstange an, die bei Fräulein Henriette Wunder bewirkte, spürt aber keinen Unterschied.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emiprie
- emmpirie
- empiire
- empirei
- empirrie
- emppirie
- empriie
- epmirie
- mepirie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Empirie - 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 "Empirie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).