flower
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The verdict
“flower” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,525. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,525
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blume
Corpus desk
Index DE-flower · flower · German
flower · rank #32,525 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,525
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fluren
Nearest frequency peer: Fluren (+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 „flower“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- fesselt
fesselt
67,479 corpus weight
- feststellbar
feststellbar
67,478 corpus weight
- flower
flower
67,476 corpus weight
- Fluren
Fluren
67,475 corpus weight
- Flüchtlings…
Flüchtlingshilfe
67,474 corpus weight
- Forschungse…
Forschungseinrichtungen
67,473 corpus weight
What this shows „flower“ 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 | flower |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „flower“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around flower (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,525 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for flower, with forms such as "fflower", "fllower", and "floewr". 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, "Flyer", "foyer", "flowers", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 flower, spelled F-L-O-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1Blume
- 2die Blüte
- 3ein Zustand von besonderer Aktivität
- 4eine Zeit/ ein Zeitraum von besonderer Aktivität
- 5Individuen, deren besondere Qualitäten aus der Masse herausragen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flower appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The flowers are gone.
"It has small white flowers, can reach as much as two feet in height, and forms dense clumps."
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflower
- fllower
- floewr
- flowerr
- flowre
- flowwer
- flwoer
- folwer
- lfower
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flower - 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 "flower", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).