fehlerhaftes
[ˈfeːlɐhaftəs]
The verdict
“fehlerhaftes” is uncommon German (frequency #90,234 among 45,736 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,234
- frequency rank, German
- 45,736
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs fehlerhaft
Corpus desk
Index DE-fehlerhaftes · fehlerhaftes · German
fehlerhaftes · rank #90,234 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,234
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 45,736
- PHOTO-FINISH Faultiere
Nearest frequency peer: Faultiere (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fehlerhaftes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- farbenblind
farbenblind
9,771 corpus weight
- Fassbomben
Fassbomben
9,770 corpus weight
- Faultiere
Faultiere
9,768 corpus weight
- fehlerhaftes
fehlerhaftes
9,767 corpus weight
- Fehlerquelle
Fehlerquelle
9,766 corpus weight
- Feldfrüchte
Feldfrüchte
9,765 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fehlerhaftes” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fehlerhaftes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈfeːlɐhaftəs] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fehlerhaftes” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fehlerhaftes is uncommon German at frequency #90,234 among 45,736 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈfeːlɐhaftəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
fehlerhaftes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is fehlerhaftes, spelled F-E-H-L-E-R-H-A-F-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs fehlerhaft
- 2Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs fehlerhaft
- 3Nominativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs fehlerhaft
- 4Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs fehlerhaft
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 "fehlerhaftes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.