Fehlerkorrektur
[ˈfeːlɐkɔʁɛkˌtuːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Fehlerkorrektur” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Verbesserung, Berichtigung von Falschem, von Mängeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-fehlerkorrektur · Fehlerkorrektur · German
Fehlerkorrektur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fehlerkorrektur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfeːlɐkɔʁɛkˌtuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Fehlerkorrektur” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Fehlerkorrektur is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfeːlɐkɔʁɛkˌtuːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Fehlerkorrektur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Fehlerkorrektur, spelled F-E-H-L-E-R-K-O-R-R-E-K-T-U-R.
Definition
- 1Verbesserung, Berichtigung von Falschem, von Mängeln
- 2Funktion in einem Computerprogramm, die für [1] dient
- 3etwas Falsches, was verbessert, berichtigt wurde
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