expandieren
[ɛkspanˈdiːʁən]
The verdict
“expandieren” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,641. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,641
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich oder etwas ausbauen beziehungsweise vergrößern
Corpus desk
Index DE-expandieren · expandieren · German
expandieren · rank #34,641 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,641
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Evangelisten
Nearest frequency peer: Evangelisten (-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 „expandieren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Etikette
Etikette
65,363 corpus weight
- Evangelien
Evangelien
65,362 corpus weight
- Evangelisten
Evangelisten
65,361 corpus weight
- expandieren
expandieren
65,360 corpus weight
- exzellenten
exzellenten
65,359 corpus weight
- fabelhafte
fabelhafte
65,358 corpus weight
What this shows „expandieren“ 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 | expandieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛkspanˈdiːʁən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #34,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „expandieren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around expandieren (IPA [ɛkspanˈdiːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,641 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sich oder etwas ausbauen beziehungsweise vergrößern".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for expandieren, with forms such as "epxandieren", "exapndieren", and "expadnieren". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "expandiert", "explodieren", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 expandieren, spelled E-X-P-A-N-D-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich oder etwas ausbauen beziehungsweise vergrößern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expandieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unser Unternehmen expandiert weltweit.
Das Universum expandiert.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxandieren
- exapndieren
- expadnieren
- expanddieren
- expandeiren
- expandieern
- expandierenn
- expandierne
- expandierren
- expandireen
- expanideren
- expanndieren
- expnadieren
- exppandieren
- exxpandieren
- xepandieren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expandieren - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "expandieren", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).