Fehlverhalten
[ˈfeːlfɛɐ̯ˌhaltn̩]
The verdict
“Fehlverhalten” has 21 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,903. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,903
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - falsches, unangebrachtes Verhalten
Corpus desk
Index DE-fehlverhalten · Fehlverhalten · German
Fehlverhalten · rank #19,903 · 21 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,903
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH factory
Nearest frequency peer: factory (-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 „Fehlverhalten“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- existierende
existierende
80,101 corpus weight
- fachlichen
fachlichen
80,100 corpus weight
- factory
factory
80,099 corpus weight
- Fehlverhalt…
Fehlverhalten
80,098 corpus weight
- Festnehmen
Festnehmen
80,097 corpus weight
- fiktive
fiktive
80,096 corpus weight
What this shows „Fehlverhalten“ 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 | Fehlverhalten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfeːlfɛɐ̯ˌhaltn̩] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #19,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Fehlverhalten“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around Fehlverhalten (IPA [ˈfeːlfɛɐ̯ˌhaltn̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,903 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "falsches, unangebrachtes Verhalten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for Fehlverhalten, with forms such as "efhlverhalten", "fehhlverhalten", and "fehlevrhalten". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "fehlerhaften", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Fehlverhalten, spelled F-E-H-L-V-E-R-H-A-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1falsches, unangebrachtes Verhalten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fehlverhalten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein solches Fehlverhalten ist unakzeptabel.
„Das Oberlandesgericht Wien kam zu dem Schluss, dass dieses Fehlverhalten aufgrund der Begleitumstände die fristlose Entlassung des Arbeitnehmers nicht rechtfertigt.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efhlverhalten
- fehhlverhalten
- fehlevrhalten
- fehllverhalten
- fehlvehralten
- fehlverahlten
- fehlverhaletn
- fehlverhallten
- fehlverhaltenn
- fehlverhaltne
- fehlverhaltten
- fehlverhatlen
- fehlverhhalten
- fehlverhlaten
- fehlverrhalten
- fehlvrehalten
- fehlvverhalten
- fehvlerhalten
- felhverhalten
- ffehlverhalten
- fhelverhalten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Fehlverhalten - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Fehlverhalten", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).