erinnern
[ɛɐ̯ˈʔɪnɐn]
The verdict
“erinnern” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,509. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,509
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im Gedächtnis behalten haben
Corpus desk
Index DE-erinnern · erinnern · German
erinnern · rank #1,509 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,509
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH entdeckt
Nearest frequency peer: entdeckt (-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 „erinnern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Demokratie
Demokratie
98,495 corpus weight
- eingesetzt
eingesetzt
98,494 corpus weight
- entdeckt
entdeckt
98,493 corpus weight
- erinnern
erinnern
98,492 corpus weight
- erstes
erstes
98,491 corpus weight
- extrem
extrem
98,490 corpus weight
What this shows „erinnern“ 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 | erinnern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈʔɪnɐn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „erinnern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around erinnern (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈʔɪnɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,509 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for erinnern, with forms such as "eirnnern", "erinenrn", and "erinern". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "erinnert", "erinnerte", "erinnerst", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is erinnern, spelled E-R-I-N-N-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1im Gedächtnis behalten haben
- 2Erinnerung wachrufen
- 3jemanden etwas nicht vergessen lassen
- 4durch Ähnlichkeit ins Gedächtnis rufen
- 5im Gedächtnis haben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erinnern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich erinnere mich noch genau daran, als du …
Ich erinnere mich an dich.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eirnnern
- erinenrn
- erinern
- erinnenr
- erinnernn
- erinnerrn
- erinnren
- erninern
- errinnern
- reinnern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erinnern - 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 "erinnern", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).