flick
[flɪk]
The verdict
“flick” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,556. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,556
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs flicken
Corpus desk
Index DE-flick · flick · German
flick · rank #30,556 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,556
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Finne
Nearest frequency peer: Finne (-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 „flick“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Fehde
Fehde
69,449 corpus weight
- fehlerhaften
fehlerhaften
69,448 corpus weight
- Finder
Finder
69,447 corpus weight
- Finne
Finne
69,446 corpus weight
- flick
flick
69,445 corpus weight
- freundschaf…
freundschaftlich
69,441 corpus weight
What this shows „flick“ 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 | flick |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [flɪk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „flick“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around flick (IPA [flɪk]), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,556 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs flicken".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for flick, with forms such as "fflick", "filck", and "flcik". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "fuck", "flip", "Fock", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is flick, spelled F-L-I-C-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs flicken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflick
- filck
- flcik
- flicck
- flickk
- flikc
- fllick
- lfick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flick - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "flick", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).