fielen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,081
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fielen is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen Pronounced [ˈfiːlən]. It ranks #5,081 in German word frequency. Often confused with file and fixen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fielen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfiːlən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for fielen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfiːlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,081 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fielen, with forms such as "ffielen", "fieeln", and "fielenn". 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, "file", "fixen", "fiese", 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 fielen, spelled F-I-E-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen
- 23. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen
- 31. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen
- 43. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fallen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffielen,fieeln,fielenn,fiellen,fielne,fileen,ifelen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fielen
Misspelling Variants of "fielen"
Frequency rank: #5,081 in German
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Nearby German words
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