flag
[flæɡ]
The verdict
“flag” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,919. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,919
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flagge, Fahne
Corpus desk
Index DE-flag · flag · German
flag · rank #20,919 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,919
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Festplatten
Nearest frequency peer: Festplatten (-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 „flag“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Ferguson
Ferguson
79,085 corpus weight
- festigen
festigen
79,084 corpus weight
- Festplatten
Festplatten
79,083 corpus weight
- flag
flag
79,082 corpus weight
- fliesen
fliesen
79,081 corpus weight
- Folien
Folien
79,080 corpus weight
What this shows „flag“ 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 | flag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [flæɡ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „flag“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around flag (IPA [flæɡ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,919 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Flagge, Fahne".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for flag, with forms such as "falg", "fflag", and "flagg". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fly", "Frau", "frag", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is flag, spelled F-L-A-G.
Definition
- 1Flagge, Fahne
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falg
- fflag
- flagg
- flga
- fllag
- lfag
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flag - 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 "flag", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).