Fach
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,440
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Fach is aGermannoun. It means: der durch das Balkengerüst beziehungsweise die tragenden Balken gebildete und mit Lehm oder Ziegeln ausgefüllte Zwischenraum einer Fachwerkwand (auch Gefach) Pronounced [fax]. It ranks #3,440 in German word frequency. Often confused with FC and FH.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fach |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fax] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Fach is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fax]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,440 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Fach, with forms such as "afch", "facch", and "fachh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FC", "FH", "Fan", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Fach, spelled F-A-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der durch das Balkengerüst beziehungsweise die tragenden Balken gebildete und mit Lehm oder Ziegeln ausgefüllte Zwischenraum einer Fachwerkwand (auch Gefach)
- 2Ordnungselement in einem Schrank, Regal oder Kasten zur Aufbewahrung und zum schnelleren Wiederfinden von Gegenständen
- 3kurz für ein Fachgebiet
- 4kurz für ein Unterrichtsfach
- 5die Eignung eines Sängers oder Schauspielers für eine bestimmte musikalische Richtung
- 6ein Raum, der beim Weben entsteht, wenn manche Kettfäden gehoben und andere gesenkt werden
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afch,facch,fachh,fahc,fcah,ffach
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Fach"
Frequency rank: #3,440 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our German index: