Feuerwehr
[ˈfɔɪ̯ɐˌveːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Feuerwehr” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #2,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,648
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - berufsmäßig oder freiwillig aufgebaute Mannschaft zur Brandbekämpfung, für Notfälle, Katastrophenschutz und andere Aufgaben
Corpus desk
Index DE-feuerwehr · Feuerwehr · German
Feuerwehr · rank #2,648 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,648
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fakten
Nearest frequency peer: Fakten (-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 „Feuerwehr“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ermöglicht
ermöglicht
97,355 corpus weight
- Fakten
Fakten
97,354 corpus weight
- Feuerwehr
Feuerwehr
97,353 corpus weight
- Flug
Flug
97,352 corpus weight
- folgte
folgte
97,351 corpus weight
- Frankfurter
Frankfurter
97,350 corpus weight
What this shows „Feuerwehr“ 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 | Feuerwehr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɔɪ̯ɐˌveːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Feuerwehr“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Feuerwehr (IPA [ˈfɔɪ̯ɐˌveːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,648 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Feuerwehr, with forms such as "efuerwehr", "feeurwehr", and "feuerewhr". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Feuerwerk", "Feuerwehren", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Feuerwehr, spelled F-E-U-E-R-W-E-H-R.
Definition
- 1berufsmäßig oder freiwillig aufgebaute Mannschaft zur Brandbekämpfung, für Notfälle, Katastrophenschutz und andere Aufgaben
- 2Mitglieder der Feuerwehr
- 3für Löschfahrzeuge und andere Fahrzeuge der ^([1]) und aus dem Bestand von ^([2])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Feuerwehr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Nachbar alarmierte rasch die Feuerwehr.
„Ein Grossbrand in einem Wolkenkratzer von Dubai hält die Feuerwehr kurz vor dem Jahreswechsel in Atem.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efuerwehr
- feeurwehr
- feuerewhr
- feuerrwehr
- feuerwehhr
- feuerwehrr
- feuerwerh
- feuerwher
- feuerwwehr
- feuewrehr
- feurewehr
- ffeuerwehr
- fueerwehr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Feuerwehr - 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 "Feuerwehr", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).