erzählen
[ɛɐ̯ˈt͡sɛːlən]
The verdict
“erzählen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,659
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schriftlich oder mündlich ein Erlebnis oder Vorkommnis anschaulich zur Darstellung bringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-erzahlen · erzählen · German
erzählen · rank #1,659 · 12 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,659
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH enthalten
Nearest frequency peer: enthalten (-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 „erzählen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- beträgt
beträgt
98,345 corpus weight
- Brief
Brief
98,344 corpus weight
- enthalten
enthalten
98,343 corpus weight
- erzählen
erzählen
98,342 corpus weight
- Fahrt
Fahrt
98,341 corpus weight
- Freunden
Freunden
98,340 corpus weight
What this shows „erzählen“ 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 | erzählen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈt͡sɛːlən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „erzählen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around erzählen (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈt͡sɛːlən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,659 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for erzählen, with forms such as "errzählen", "erzhälen", and "erzzählen". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "erzählt", "erzählte", "erzielen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is erzählen, spelled E-R-Z-Ä-H-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1schriftlich oder mündlich ein Erlebnis oder Vorkommnis anschaulich zur Darstellung bringen
- 2jemandem etwas mitteilen oder berichten, jemandem eine Information geben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erzählen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Siegfried Lenz kann sehr gut Geschichten erzählen.
Erzähl mir doch mal, was heute alles geschehen ist.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- errzählen
- erzhälen
- erzzählen
- erzäheln
- erzähhlen
- erzählenn
- erzähllen
- erzählne
- erzälhen
- eräzhlen
- ezrählen
- rezählen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erzählen - 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 "erzählen", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).