Erfüllung
[ɛɐ̯ˈfʏlʊŋ]
The verdict
“Erfüllung” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,695. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,695
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Realisierung (von Plänen, Hoffnungen, Wünschen, Prophezeiungen)
Corpus desk
Index DE-erfullung · Erfüllung · German
Erfüllung · rank #4,695 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,695
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Doktor
Nearest frequency peer: Doktor (-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 „Erfüllung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- christliche
christliche
95,309 corpus weight
- dazwischen
dazwischen
95,308 corpus weight
- Doktor
Doktor
95,307 corpus weight
- Erfüllung
Erfüllung
95,306 corpus weight
- Erich
Erich
95,305 corpus weight
- erwähnen
erwähnen
95,304 corpus weight
What this shows „Erfüllung“ 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 | Erfüllung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈfʏlʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Erfüllung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Erfüllung (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈfʏlʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,695 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Erfüllung, with forms such as "efrüllung", "erffüllung", and "erflülung". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "erfüllen", 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. The correct German form is Erfüllung, spelled E-R-F-Ü-L-L-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Realisierung (von Plänen, Hoffnungen, Wünschen, Prophezeiungen)
- 2Bewusstwerden des Sinn des Lebens
- 3Wahrnehmung von Verpflichtungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Erfüllung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Hoffnungen der gründerzeitlichen Stadtplaner, die sich von der Donauregulierung eine zügige Verbauung des zwischen Donau und Nordwestbahnhof entstehenden Stadtviertels versprachen, gingen allerdings nicht voll in Erfüllung, […]“
„Nur für jedes dritte Paar geht der Wunsch nach einem Adoptivkind in Erfüllung.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efrüllung
- erffüllung
- erflülung
- erfüllnug
- erfüllugn
- erfüllungg
- erfüllunng
- erfülulng
- erfülung
- errfüllung
- erüfllung
- refüllung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Erfüllung - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Erfüllung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).