empören
[ɛmˈpøːʁən]
The verdict
“empören” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,561. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,561
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zornig werden, sich ärgern
Corpus desk
Index DE-emporen · empören · German
empören · rank #44,561 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,561
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Emotionalität
Nearest frequency peer: Emotionalität (-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 „empören“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Elben
Elben
55,443 corpus weight
- eller
eller
55,442 corpus weight
- Emotionalit…
Emotionalität
55,441 corpus weight
- empören
empören
55,440 corpus weight
- Engpass
Engpass
55,438 corpus weight
- engstem
engstem
55,437 corpus weight
What this shows „empören“ 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 | empören |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛmˈpøːʁən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „empören“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around empören (IPA [ɛmˈpøːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,561 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for empören, with forms such as "emmpören", "emppören", and "empröen". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "empört", "empörte", "Empörung", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is empören, spelled E-M-P-Ö-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1zornig werden, sich ärgern
- 2zornig machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empören appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Kunden empören sich ob der schlechten Beratung durch den neuen Verkäufer.
„Doch empörte er sich über das Prozedere und redete mit bewundernswertem Freimut den Regenten und Obrigkeiten ins Gewissen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmpören
- emppören
- empröen
- empöern
- empörenn
- empörne
- empörren
- emöpren
- epmören
- mepören
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empören - 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 "empören", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).