erteilen
[ɛɐ̯ˈtaɪ̯lən]
The verdict
“erteilen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,897. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,897
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem etwas zukommen lassen
Corpus desk
Index DE-erteilen · erteilen · German
erteilen · rank #9,897 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,897
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH ersichtlich
Nearest frequency peer: ersichtlich (-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 „erteilen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Erfinder
Erfinder
90,107 corpus weight
- erschüttert
erschüttert
90,106 corpus weight
- ersichtlich
ersichtlich
90,105 corpus weight
- erteilen
erteilen
90,104 corpus weight
- erzielten
erzielten
90,103 corpus weight
- Fahrräder
Fahrräder
90,102 corpus weight
What this shows „erteilen“ 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 | erteilen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈtaɪ̯lən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „erteilen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around erteilen (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈtaɪ̯lən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,897 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jemandem etwas zukommen lassen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for erteilen, with forms such as "eretilen", "errteilen", and "erteieln". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "erteilt", "erweisen", "erteilte", 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. The correct German form is erteilen, spelled E-R-T-E-I-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem etwas zukommen lassen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erteilen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Hauptaufgabe eines Lehrers ist es, Unterricht zu erteilen.
Der Chef erteilte ihm eine Absage, als er sich um die Teilnahme an der Fortbildung bewarb.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eretilen
- errteilen
- erteieln
- erteilenn
- erteillen
- erteilne
- ertelien
- ertielen
- ertteilen
- etreilen
- reteilen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erteilen - 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 "erteilen", 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).