five
[faɪv]
The verdict
“five” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,869. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,869
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fünf
Corpus desk
Index DE-five · five · German
five · rank #11,869 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,869
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fertigung
Nearest frequency peer: Fertigung (-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 „five“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- features
features
88,135 corpus weight
- Fels
Fels
88,134 corpus weight
- Fertigung
Fertigung
88,133 corpus weight
- five
five
88,132 corpus weight
- Fortbildung
Fortbildung
88,131 corpus weight
- Fotografien
Fotografien
88,130 corpus weight
What this shows „five“ 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 | five |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [faɪv] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „five“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around five (IPA [faɪv]), anumeral. Corpus frequency is #11,869 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "fünf".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for five, with forms such as "ffive", "fiev", and "fivve". 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, "FV", "fix", "FSV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is five, spelled F-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1fünf
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how five appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This shirt costs five bucks.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffive
- fiev
- fivve
- fvie
- ifve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of five - 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 "five", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).