fils
[fis]
The verdict
“fils” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,670. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,670
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Nachkomme: Sohn
Corpus desk
Index DE-fils · fils · German
fils · rank #49,670 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,670
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH festzusetzen
Nearest frequency peer: festzusetzen (-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 „fils“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Fernsehsend…
Fernsehsendungen
50,334 corpus weight
- ferry
ferry
50,333 corpus weight
- festzusetzen
festzusetzen
50,332 corpus weight
- fils
fils
50,331 corpus weight
- Finanzbranc…
Finanzbranche
50,330 corpus weight
- firm
firm
50,329 corpus weight
What this shows „fils“ 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 | fils |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fis] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „fils“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around fils (IPA [fis]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,670 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "männlicher Nachkomme: Sohn".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for fils, with forms such as "ffils", "fills", and "filss". 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", "FS", "fit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is fils, spelled F-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1männlicher Nachkomme: Sohn
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffils
- fills
- filss
- fisl
- flis
- ifls
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fils - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "fils", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).