Faustregel
[ˈfaʊ̯stˌʁeːɡl̩]
The verdict
“Faustregel” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,762. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,762
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - übliche, aber ungenaue Regel oder Vorgehensweise, die sich im Laufe der Zeit bewährt hat, aber nicht von Gremien oder Institutionen als allgemeingültige Formel festgesetzt wurde
Corpus desk
Index DE-faustregel · Faustregel · German
Faustregel · rank #35,762 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,762
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fate
Nearest frequency peer: fate (-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 „Faustregel“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Fachärzte
Fachärzte
64,243 corpus weight
- fate
fate
64,240 corpus weight
- Faustregel
Faustregel
64,239 corpus weight
- Feigling
Feigling
64,238 corpus weight
- Feiglinge
Feiglinge
64,237 corpus weight
- fellow
fellow
64,236 corpus weight
What this shows „Faustregel“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Faustregel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfaʊ̯stˌʁeːɡl̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Faustregel“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Faustregel (IPA [ˈfaʊ̯stˌʁeːɡl̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,762 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "übliche, aber ungenaue Regel oder Vorgehensweise, die sich im Laufe der Zeit bewährt hat, aber nicht von Gremien oder Institutionen als allgemeingültige Formel festgesetzt wurde".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Faustregel, with forms such as "afustregel", "fasutregel", and "fausrtegel". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Faustregel, spelled F-A-U-S-T-R-E-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1übliche, aber ungenaue Regel oder Vorgehensweise, die sich im Laufe der Zeit bewährt hat, aber nicht von Gremien oder Institutionen als allgemeingültige Formel festgesetzt wurde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Faustregel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afustregel
- fasutregel
- fausrtegel
- fausstregel
- faustergel
- faustreegl
- faustregell
- faustreggel
- faustregle
- faustrgeel
- faustrregel
- fausttregel
- fautsregel
- ffaustregel
- fuastregel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Faustregel - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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