flechten
[ˈflɛçtn̩]
The verdict
“flechten” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,719. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,719
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (meist) drei Stränge (zum Beispiel Haare oder Bänder) miteinander verschlingen
Corpus desk
Index DE-flechten · flechten · German
flechten · rank #24,719 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,719
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH finanzierten
Nearest frequency peer: finanzierten (-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 „flechten“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Festigkeit
Festigkeit
75,286 corpus weight
- Feuilleton
Feuilleton
75,285 corpus weight
- Filz
Filz
75,284 corpus weight
- finanzierten
finanzierten
75,283 corpus weight
- flechten
flechten
75,282 corpus weight
- flüstern
flüstern
75,280 corpus weight
What this shows „flechten“ 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 | flechten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈflɛçtn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „flechten“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around flechten (IPA [ˈflɛçtn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,719 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for flechten, with forms such as "felchten", "fflechten", and "flcehten". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "flehen", "Flecken", "Frechen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is flechten, spelled F-L-E-C-H-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1(meist) drei Stränge (zum Beispiel Haare oder Bänder) miteinander verschlingen
- 2etwas herstellen, indem man Stränge biegsamen Materials ineinanderschlingt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flechten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Flicht dir endlich die Haare!
Wenn der Stallbursche doch die Mähnen der Pferde nur sorgfältiger flöchte!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- felchten
- fflechten
- flcehten
- flecchten
- flechetn
- flechhten
- flechtenn
- flechtne
- flechtten
- flecthen
- flehcten
- fllechten
- lfechten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flechten - 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 "flechten", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).