Festung
[ˈfɛstʊŋ]
The verdict
“Festung” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,606
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein durch Wehranlagen stark befestigter, militärisch bedeutender Ort
Corpus desk
Index DE-festung · Festung · German
Festung · rank #7,606 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,606
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fass
Nearest frequency peer: Fass (-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 „Festung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Erwerb
Erwerb
92,398 corpus weight
- European
European
92,397 corpus weight
- Fass
Fass
92,396 corpus weight
- Festung
Festung
92,395 corpus weight
- Flüssigkeit
Flüssigkeit
92,394 corpus weight
- Gebet
Gebet
92,393 corpus weight
What this shows „Festung“ 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 | Festung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Festung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Festung (IPA [ˈfɛstʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,606 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ein durch Wehranlagen stark befestigter, militärisch bedeutender Ort".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Festung, with forms such as "efstung", "fesstung", and "festnug". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Festungen", "Festen", "Fassung", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Festung, spelled F-E-S-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1ein durch Wehranlagen stark befestigter, militärisch bedeutender Ort
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Festung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Hier war es. Da stand sie. Diese steinernen Löwen, jetzt kopflos, haben sie angeblickt. Diese Festung, einst uneinnehmbar, ein Steinhaufen jetzt, war das letzte, was sie sah.“
„Er wählte diesen Standort nahe am Meer, weil die Kanonen der Festung dann portugiesische Schiffe, die dort ankerten, vor den Holländern schützen konnten.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efstung
- fesstung
- festnug
- festtung
- festugn
- festungg
- festunng
- fesutng
- fetsung
- ffestung
- fsetung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Festung - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Festung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).