erkaufen
[ɛɐ̯ˈkaʊ̯fn̩]
The verdict
“erkaufen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,297
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas durch Anstrengung oder Opfer erlangen
Corpus desk
Index DE-erkaufen · erkaufen · German
erkaufen · rank #36,297 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,297
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erfrieren
Nearest frequency peer: erfrieren (-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 „erkaufen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Erdnussbutt…
Erdnussbutter
63,706 corpus weight
- erfrieren
erfrieren
63,705 corpus weight
- erkaufen
erkaufen
63,704 corpus weight
- Erlanger
Erlanger
63,703 corpus weight
- erlebbar
erlebbar
63,702 corpus weight
- Erlenbach
Erlenbach
63,701 corpus weight
What this shows „erkaufen“ 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 | erkaufen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈkaʊ̯fn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „erkaufen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around erkaufen (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈkaʊ̯fn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,297 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for erkaufen, with forms such as "ekraufen", "erakufen", and "erkafuen". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "erkauft", "erlauben", "erbauen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 erkaufen, spelled E-R-K-A-U-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas durch Anstrengung oder Opfer erlangen
- 2eine Person oder Sache durch Bestechung gewinnen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erkaufen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Gewerkschaften erkauften sich die Arbeitszeitverkürzung durch ausgesprochen niedrige Lohn- und Gehaltszuwächse und langfristige Verträge.
Die Volksbewegung, erstens, will die Früchte ihres teuer erkauften Sieges ernten.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ekraufen
- erakufen
- erkafuen
- erkauefn
- erkaufenn
- erkauffen
- erkaufne
- erkkaufen
- erkuafen
- errkaufen
- rekaufen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erkaufen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "erkaufen", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).