fis
[fi]
The verdict
“fis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,408) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,408
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singulra Indikativ historisches Perfekt Aktiv des Verbs faire
Corpus desk
Index DE-fis · fis · German
fis · rank #26,408 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,408
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Finanzverwalt…
Nearest frequency peer: Finanzverwaltung (-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 „fis“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- FIA
FIA
73,596 corpus weight
- fidel
fidel
73,595 corpus weight
- Finanzverwa…
Finanzverwaltung
73,594 corpus weight
- fis
fis
73,593 corpus weight
- Flandern
Flandern
73,592 corpus weight
- forciert
forciert
73,590 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „fis“ 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 | fis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „fis“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fis is neighbouring look-alikes ("fl", "FW", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [fi]. Frequency #26,408 among 3,474 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
fis has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fl", "FW", "fm", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is fis, spelled F-I-S.
Definition
- 11. Person Singulra Indikativ historisches Perfekt Aktiv des Verbs faire
- 22. Person Singulra Indikativ historisches Perfekt Aktiv des Verbs faire
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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