finden
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#228
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
finden is aGermanverb. It means: etwas oder jemanden durch Suchen oder durch Zufall entdecken, sehen Pronounced [ˈfɪndn̩]. It ranks #228 in German word frequency. Often confused with fine and finds.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɪndn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for finden is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɪndn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #228 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for finden, with forms such as "ffinden", "fidnen", and "findden". 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, "fine", "finds", "Funde", 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 finden, spelled F-I-N-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas oder jemanden durch Suchen oder durch Zufall entdecken, sehen
- 2zum Vorschein kommen, anzutreffen sein
- 3etwas oder jemanden erwerben und/oder erlangen
- 4etwas durch Nachdenken entdecken, auf etwas durch Nachdenken kommen
- 5etwas oder jemanden vorfinden
- 6etwas oder jemanden für etwas halten, eine Meinung über etwas oder jemanden haben, etwas oder jemanden auf eine bestimmte Art einschätzen
- 7kommen, gelangen
- 8etwas oder jemanden auf eine bestimmte Weise sehen
- 9etwas bekommen, einer Sache teilhaftig werden
- 10sich mit etwas abfinden, sich fügen
- 11stehlen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffinden,fidnen,findden,findenn,findne,finedn,finnden,fniden,ifnden
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "finden"
Frequency rank: #228 in German
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