erfolgreich

/[ɛɐ̯ˈfɔlkʁaɪ̯ç]/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,156

in German word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

erfolgreich is anGermanadj. It means: reich an Erfolgen Pronounced [ɛɐ̯ˈfɔlkʁaɪ̯ç]. It ranks #1,156 in German word frequency. Often confused with erfolgreiche and erfolgreichen.

Key facts for erfolgreich
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Headworderfolgreich
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ɛɐ̯ˈfɔlkʁaɪ̯ç]
Letters11
Frequency rank#1,156
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of erfolgreich in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for erfolgreich is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈfɔlkʁaɪ̯ç]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,156 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "reich an Erfolgen".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for erfolgreich, with forms such as "efrolgreich", "erffolgreich", and "erflogreich". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "erfolgreiche", "erfolgreichen", "erfolgreicher", 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 erfolgreich, spelled E-R-F-O-L-G-R-E-I-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    reich an Erfolgen

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: efrolgreich,erffolgreich,erflogreich,erfoglreich,erfolgerich,erfolggreich,erfolgrecih,erfolgreicch,erfolgreichh,erfolgreihc,erfolgriech,erfolgrreich,erfollgreich,erfolrgeich,eroflgreich,errfolgreich,refolgreich

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for erfolgreich

Misspelling Variants of "erfolgreich"

efrolgreich11erffolgreich12erflogreich11erfoglreich11erfolgerich11erfolggreich12erfolgrecih11erfolgreicch12
Misspelling Variants of "erfolgreich"

Frequency rank: #1,156 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "erfolgreich"?
"erfolgreich" is spelled E-R-F-O-L-G-R-E-I-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ɛɐ̯ˈfɔlkʁaɪ̯ç].
What does "erfolgreich" mean?
As an adj, "erfolgreich" means: reich an Erfolgen
What words are commonly confused with "erfolgreich"?
"erfolgreich" is commonly confused with "erfolgreiche", "erfolgreichen", "erfolgreicher". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "erfolgreich"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "erfolgreich" is [ɛɐ̯ˈfɔlkʁaɪ̯ç]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "erfolgreich" come from?
"erfolgreich" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.