fiel
[fiːl]
The verdict
“fiel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,550) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,550
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen
Corpus desk
Index DE-fiel · fiel · German
fiel · rank #1,550 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,550
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH erscheint
Nearest frequency peer: erscheint (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „fiel“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- erfolgt
erfolgt
98,454 corpus weight
- erhält
erhält
98,453 corpus weight
- erscheint
erscheint
98,452 corpus weight
- fiel
fiel
98,451 corpus weight
- findest
findest
98,450 corpus weight
- gelernt
gelernt
98,449 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „fiel“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | fiel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fiːl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „fiel“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fiel is neighbouring look-alikes ("fl", "fit", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [fiːl]. Frequency #1,550 among 3,474 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiel, with forms such as "feil", "ffiel", and "fiell". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fl", "fit", "fix", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is fiel, spelled F-I-E-L.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feil
- ffiel
- fiell
- ifel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiel - 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 "fiel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).