fähig
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,300
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
fähig is anGermanadj. It means: in der Lage, imstande (etwas zu tun); über die Möglichkeiten verfügend, etwas zu tun Pronounced [ˈfɛːɪç]. It ranks #6,300 in German word frequency. Often confused with fair and fahr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fähig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈfɛːɪç] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for fähig is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɛːɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,300 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "in der Lage, imstande (etwas zu tun); über die Möglichkeiten verfügend, etwas zu tun".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fähig, with forms such as "ffähig", "fhäig", and "fähgi". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "fair", "fahr", "Fang", 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 fähig, spelled F-Ä-H-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in der Lage, imstande (etwas zu tun); über die Möglichkeiten verfügend, etwas zu tun
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Also misspelled as: ffähig,fhäig,fähgi,fähhig,fähigg,fäihg,äfhig
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Misspelling Variants of "fähig"
Frequency rank: #6,300 in German
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