Flieger
[ˈfliːɡɐ]
The verdict
“Flieger” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,468. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,468
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Führer eines Fluggerätes
Corpus desk
Index DE-flieger · Flieger · German
Flieger · rank #7,468 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,468
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Filiale
Nearest frequency peer: Filiale (-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 „Flieger“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Festivals
Festivals
92,536 corpus weight
- feucht
feucht
92,535 corpus weight
- Filiale
Filiale
92,534 corpus weight
- Flieger
Flieger
92,533 corpus weight
- flog
flog
92,532 corpus weight
- Florida
Florida
92,531 corpus weight
What this shows „Flieger“ 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 | Flieger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfliːɡɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Flieger“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Flieger (IPA [ˈfliːɡɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,468 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Flieger, with forms such as "fflieger", "fileger", and "fleiger". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "fliegt", "fliehen", "fliesen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Flieger, spelled F-L-I-E-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Führer eines Fluggerätes
- 2flugtüchtiges Verkehrsmittel, welches Tragflächen besitzt
- 3spezielles, in einiger Höhe über Deck vor dem Klüver geführtes Vorsegel mancher Segelschiffe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Flieger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er war lange Jahre als Flieger bei der Luftwaffe.
„Ich muss mich vorne auf den Flieger verlassen können. Aber als er einstieg, schwankte er und sah betrunken aus!“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflieger
- fileger
- fleiger
- flieegr
- fliegerr
- fliegger
- fliegre
- fligeer
- fllieger
- lfieger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Flieger - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Flieger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).