fire
[ˈfiːɔ]
The verdict
“fire” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,171) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,171
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vier
Corpus desk
Index DE-fire · fire · German
fire · rank #7,171 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,171
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fassade
Nearest frequency peer: Fassade (-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 „fire“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- exklusiv
exklusiv
92,833 corpus weight
- explizit
explizit
92,832 corpus weight
- Fassade
Fassade
92,831 corpus weight
- fire
fire
92,830 corpus weight
- Forschungen
Forschungen
92,829 corpus weight
- fortgesetzt
fortgesetzt
92,828 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „fire“ 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 | fire |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [ˈfiːɔ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „fire“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fire is neighbouring look-alikes ("für", "for", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [ˈfiːɔ]. Frequency #7,171 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "vier".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for fire, with forms such as "ffire", "fier", and "firre". 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, "für", "for", "fit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is fire, spelled F-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1vier
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jeg havde ubeskyttet sex med min kæreste for fire dage siden.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffire
- fier
- firre
- ifre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fire - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).