festlichen
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,186
in German word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
festlichen is anGermanadj. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich Pronounced [ˈfɛstlɪçn̩]. Often confused with festmachen and fürstlichen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | festlichen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstlɪçn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #28,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for festlichen is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɛstlɪçn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,186 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for festlichen, with forms such as "efstlichen", "fesltichen", and "fesstlichen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "festmachen", "fürstlichen", "festlich", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is festlichen, spelled F-E-S-T-L-I-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 4Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 5Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 6Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 8Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 9Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 10Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 11Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
- 12Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs festlich
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efstlichen,fesltichen,fesstlichen,festilchen,festlcihen,festlicchen,festlicehn,festlichenn,festlichhen,festlichne,festlihcen,festllichen,festtlichen,fetslichen,ffestlichen,fsetlichen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for festlichen
Misspelling Variants of "festlichen"
Frequency rank: #28,186 in German
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Nearby German words
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