February
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The verdict
“February” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,880
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zweiter Monat des Jahres im gregorianischen Kalender; Februar
Corpus desk
Index DE-february · February · German
February · rank #48,880 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,880
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH faszinierendes
Nearest frequency peer: faszinierendes (-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 „February“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Farbigkeit
Farbigkeit
51,124 corpus weight
- Fassbinder
Fassbinder
51,123 corpus weight
- faszinieren…
faszinierendes
51,122 corpus weight
- February
February
51,121 corpus weight
- Feierstunde
Feierstunde
51,120 corpus weight
- Fensterbank
Fensterbank
51,119 corpus weight
What this shows „February“ 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 | February |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „February“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around February (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,880 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "zweiter Monat des Jahres im gregorianischen Kalender; Februar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for February, with forms such as "efbruary", "fberuary", and "febbruary". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "ii", "TO", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is February, spelled F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1zweiter Monat des Jahres im gregorianischen Kalender; Februar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how February appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The mackerel fishery commences at the latter end of February, and lasts until the end of June, but it is at its best in the months of April and May."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efbruary
- fberuary
- febbruary
- febraury
- febrruary
- februarry
- februaryy
- februayr
- februray
- feburary
- ferbuary
- ffebruary
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of February - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "February", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).