Flow
[flɔʊ̯]
The verdict
“Flow” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,823. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,823
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Durchfluss von Körperflüssigkeiten durch die Gefäße
Corpus desk
Index DE-flow · Flow · German
Flow · rank #13,823 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,823
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Flusses
Nearest frequency peer: Flusses (+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 „Flow“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- festgesetzt
festgesetzt
86,182 corpus weight
- Festlegung
Festlegung
86,181 corpus weight
- Finsternis
Finsternis
86,180 corpus weight
- Flow
Flow
86,178 corpus weight
- Flusses
Flusses
86,177 corpus weight
- folie
folie
86,175 corpus weight
What this shows „Flow“ 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 | Flow |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [flɔʊ̯] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Flow“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Flow (IPA [flɔʊ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,823 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Flow, with forms such as "fflow", "fllow", and "floww". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FW", "for", "FPÖ", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Flow, spelled F-L-O-W.
Definition
- 1Durchfluss von Körperflüssigkeiten durch die Gefäße
- 2Zustand, in dem man vollkommen in eine Tätigkeit versunken ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Flow appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn es gelingt, […] die Auf- und Abwinde richtig einzuschätzen, den Drachen optimal zu steuern, fehlerfrei zu navigieren, dann stellen sich dem Flieger schon während seiner Tätigkeit positive Rückmeldungen ein, die in einen Flow-Zustand versetzen können.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflow
- fllow
- floww
- flwo
- folw
- lfow
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Flow - 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 "Flow", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).