fad
[faːt]
The verdict
“fad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,315) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,315
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geschmacklos, wässrig
Corpus desk
Index DE-fad · fad · German
fad · rank #36,315 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,315
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fahrlehrer
Nearest frequency peer: Fahrlehrer (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „fad“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- EWR
EWR
63,690 corpus weight
- Fabrikanten
Fabrikanten
63,689 corpus weight
- fad
fad
63,686 corpus weight
- Fahrlehrer
Fahrlehrer
63,685 corpus weight
- Farbton
Farbton
63,684 corpus weight
- federführend
federführend
63,683 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „fad“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | fad |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [faːt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „fad“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fad is neighbouring look-alikes ("FC", "fi", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [faːt]. Frequency #36,315 among 3,474 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fad in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FC", "fi", "FH", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 fad, spelled F-A-D.
Definition
- 1geschmacklos, wässrig
- 2langweilig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die faden Nudeln bräuchten nur ein wenig mehr Salz und schon schmeckten sie besser.
Mir ist so fad. Hier steht wirklich die Zeit still.
Synonyms
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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