fliehen
[ˈfliːən]
The verdict
“fliehen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,060
- frequency rank, German
- 45,736
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - schnelles Verlassen eines Ortes beispielsweise aufgrund befürchteter Gefahr
Corpus desk
Index DE-fliehen · fliehen · German
fliehen · rank #6,060 · 10 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,060
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 45,736
- PHOTO-FINISH festgehalten
Nearest frequency peer: festgehalten (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fliehen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- evangelische
evangelische
93,945 corpus weight
- feierte
feierte
93,943 corpus weight
- festgehalten
festgehalten
93,942 corpus weight
- fliehen
fliehen
93,941 corpus weight
- fünfte
fünfte
93,939 corpus weight
- Gastgeber
Gastgeber
93,938 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fliehen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | fliehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfliːən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fliehen” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fliehen (IPA [ˈfliːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,060 among 45,736 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fliehen, with forms such as "ffliehen", "filehen", and "fleihen". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "flieht", "Frieden", "flirten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 fliehen, spelled F-L-I-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1schnelles Verlassen eines Ortes beispielsweise aufgrund befürchteter Gefahr
- 2fliegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fliehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn das Hochwasser kommt, müssen wir fliehen.
„Wenn sie euch aber in einer Stadt verfolgen, so flieht in eine andere.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffliehen
- filehen
- fleihen
- flieehn
- fliehenn
- fliehhen
- fliehne
- fliheen
- flliehen
- lfiehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fliehen - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fliehen", 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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.