Feuer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,477
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Feuer is aGermannoun. It means: Flammenbildung bei der Verbrennung unter Abgabe von Wärme und Licht Pronounced [ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ]. It ranks #1,477 in German word frequency. Often confused with für and fuhr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Feuer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Feuer is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,477 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Feuer, with forms such as "efuer", "feeur", and "feuerr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "für", "fuhr", "Flur", 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 Feuer, spelled F-E-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Flammenbildung bei der Verbrennung unter Abgabe von Wärme und Licht
- 2menschlich kontrollierter Verbrennungsvorgang, hauptsächlich, um die Wärme zu nutzen
- 3Vernichtung durch Flammen
- 4das Abschießen von Feuerwaffen; der Befehl zum Schießen
- 5das Leuchtfeuer
- 6das Strahlen und Funkeln von Dingen
- 7überschwängliche Begeisterung; Leidenschaft; Elan
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efuer,feeur,feuerr,feure,ffeuer,fueer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Feuer
Misspelling Variants of "Feuer"
Frequency rank: #1,477 in German
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Nearby German words
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