erläutern
[ɛɐ̯ˈlɔɪ̯tɐn]
The verdict
“erläutern” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,075
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas lehrend umschreiben
Corpus desk
Index DE-erlautern · erläutern · German
erläutern · rank #10,075 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,075
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erfordern
Nearest frequency peer: erfordern (-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 „erläutern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Erfassung
Erfassung
89,929 corpus weight
- erfolgten
erfolgten
89,928 corpus weight
- erfordern
erfordern
89,927 corpus weight
- erläutern
erläutern
89,926 corpus weight
- Etappe
Etappe
89,924 corpus weight
- Expedition
Expedition
89,923 corpus weight
What this shows „erläutern“ 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 | erläutern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈlɔɪ̯tɐn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „erläutern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around erläutern (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈlɔɪ̯tɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,075 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "etwas lehrend umschreiben".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for erläutern, with forms such as "elräutern", "erlläutern", and "erluätern". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "erläutert", "erläuterte", "Erläuterung", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is erläutern, spelled E-R-L-Ä-U-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1etwas lehrend umschreiben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erläutern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich kann dies an einem Beispiel erläutern.
Könnten Sie mir bitte Ihre Gründe noch einmal etwas näher erläutern
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elräutern
- erlläutern
- erluätern
- erlätuern
- erläuetrn
- erläutenr
- erläuternn
- erläuterrn
- erläutren
- erläuttern
- errläutern
- erälutern
- reläutern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erläutern - 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 "erläutern", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).