erfahre
[ɛɐ̯ˈfaːʁə]
The verdict
“erfahre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,792
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs erfahren
Corpus desk
Index DE-erfahre · erfahre · German
erfahre · rank #14,792 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,792
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH entscheidender
Nearest frequency peer: entscheidender (-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 „erfahre“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- einsamen
einsamen
85,212 corpus weight
- Eisbären
Eisbären
85,211 corpus weight
- entscheiden…
entscheidender
85,210 corpus weight
- erfahre
erfahre
85,209 corpus weight
- erheblicher
erheblicher
85,208 corpus weight
- Erreger
Erreger
85,207 corpus weight
What this shows „erfahre“ 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 | erfahre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈfaːʁə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „erfahre“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around erfahre (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈfaːʁə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,792 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for erfahre, with forms such as "efrahre", "erafhre", and "erfaher". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "erfuhr", "erfährt", "erzähle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is erfahre, spelled E-R-F-A-H-R-E.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs erfahren
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs erfahren
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs erfahren
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs erfahren
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efrahre
- erafhre
- erfaher
- erfahhre
- erfahrre
- erfarhe
- erffahre
- erfhare
- errfahre
- refahre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erfahre - 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 "erfahre", 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).