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The verdict
“fiction” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,230. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,230
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas Erfundenes, Erdachtes: Erdichtung, Erfindung, Fiktion
Corpus desk
Index DE-fiction · fiction · German
fiction · rank #11,230 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,230
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fachleute
Nearest frequency peer: Fachleute (-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 „fiction“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- erweist
erweist
88,774 corpus weight
- Extremisten
Extremisten
88,773 corpus weight
- Fachleute
Fachleute
88,772 corpus weight
- fiction
fiction
88,771 corpus weight
- Flexibilität
Flexibilität
88,770 corpus weight
- Flüsse
Flüsse
88,768 corpus weight
What this shows „fiction“ 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 | fiction |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „fiction“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fiction (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,230 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiction, with forms such as "fcition", "ffiction", and "ficction". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Fiktion", "of", "ii", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is fiction, spelled F-I-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1etwas Erfundenes, Erdachtes: Erdichtung, Erfindung, Fiktion
- 2Erzählliteratur, Prosaliteratur, Romanliteratur
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fiction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fcition
- ffiction
- ficction
- ficiton
- fictino
- fictionn
- fictoin
- ficttion
- fitcion
- ifction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiction - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "fiction", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).