Explosive
[ɛksploˈziːvə]
The verdict
“Explosive” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,504. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,504
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Explosiv
Corpus desk
Index DE-explosive · Explosive · German
Explosive · rank #37,504 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,504
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH ersteren
Nearest frequency peer: ersteren (-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 „Explosive“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- erotischer
erotischer
62,501 corpus weight
- erschwerend
erschwerend
62,500 corpus weight
- erstarrt
erstarrt
62,499 corpus weight
- ersteren
ersteren
62,498 corpus weight
- Explosive
Explosive
62,497 corpus weight
- fade
fade
62,495 corpus weight
What this shows „Explosive“ 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 | Explosive |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛksploˈziːvə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Explosive“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Explosive (IPA [ɛksploˈziːvə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,504 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Explosive, with forms such as "epxlosive", "exlposive", and "expllosive". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Explosiv", "Explosion", "exklusive", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Explosive, spelled E-X-P-L-O-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Explosiv
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Explosiv
- 3Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Explosiv
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxlosive
- exlposive
- expllosive
- exploisve
- explosiev
- explosivve
- explossive
- explosvie
- explsoive
- expolsive
- expplosive
- exxplosive
- xeplosive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Explosive - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Explosive", 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).