flieg
[fliːk]
The verdict
“flieg” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,550. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,550
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs fliegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-flieg · flieg · German
flieg · rank #25,550 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,550
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Firmensitz
Nearest frequency peer: Firmensitz (-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 „flieg“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Fernsehens
Fernsehens
74,456 corpus weight
- festgeschri…
festgeschrieben
74,455 corpus weight
- Firmensitz
Firmensitz
74,452 corpus weight
- flieg
flieg
74,451 corpus weight
- friedlicher
friedlicher
74,446 corpus weight
- funktional
funktional
74,445 corpus weight
What this shows „flieg“ 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 | flieg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fliːk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „flieg“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around flieg (IPA [fliːk]), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,550 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs fliegen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for flieg, with forms such as "fflieg", "fileg", and "fleig". 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, "Flug", "flog", "flip", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is flieg, spelled F-L-I-E-G.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs fliegen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflieg
- fileg
- fleig
- fliegg
- flige
- fllieg
- lfieg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flieg - 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 "flieg", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).