final
[fiˈnaːl]
The verdict
“final” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,205. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,205
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - allgemein: auf ein Ende, ein Ziel bezogen
Corpus desk
Index DE-final · final · German
final · rank #8,205 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,205
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Export
Nearest frequency peer: Export (-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 „final“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- erwartete
erwartete
91,799 corpus weight
- erwähnten
erwähnten
91,798 corpus weight
- Export
Export
91,797 corpus weight
- final
final
91,796 corpus weight
- fragst
fragst
91,795 corpus weight
- Gastronomie
Gastronomie
91,794 corpus weight
What this shows „final“ 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 | final |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [fiˈnaːl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „final“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around final (IPA [fiˈnaːl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,205 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for final, with forms such as "ffinal", "fianl", and "finall". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "find", "fing", "Fink", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is final, spelled F-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1allgemein: auf ein Ende, ein Ziel bezogen
- 2das Ziel, den Zweck (als grammatische oder semantische Kategorie) betreffend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how final appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Eigentlich war Reinhold Messner allein zur finalen Etappe in die Todeszone aufgebrochen, ohne Seil, ohne Zelt, ohne Proviant; er wollte zum Gipfel und so schnell wie möglich wieder zurück.“
Das Wort "damit" ist eine finale Subjunktion im Deutschen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffinal
- fianl
- finall
- finla
- finnal
- fnial
- ifnal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of final - 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 "final", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).