entfachen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,489
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
entfachen is aGermanverb. It means: ein Feuer oder einen Brand entstehen lassen Pronounced [ɛntˈfaxn̩]. Often confused with entfacht and entfallen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entfachen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛntˈfaxn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for entfachen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛntˈfaxn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,489 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 entfachen, with forms such as "enftachen", "enntfachen", and "entafchen". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "entfacht", "entfallen", "entfalten", 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 entfachen, spelled E-N-T-F-A-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein Feuer oder einen Brand entstehen lassen
- 2Begierden oder heftige Gefühle erregen; eine Auseinandersetzung provozieren
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enftachen,enntfachen,entafchen,entfacchen,entfacehn,entfachenn,entfachhen,entfachne,entfahcen,entfcahen,entffachen,enttfachen,etnfachen,netfachen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for entfachen
Misspelling Variants of "entfachen"
Frequency rank: #37,489 in German
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