flüstern
[ˈflʏstɐn]
The verdict
“flüstern” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,721. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,721
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit gesenkter, leiser Stimme sprechen
Corpus desk
Index DE-flustern · flüstern · German
flüstern · rank #24,721 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,721
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH flechten
Nearest frequency peer: flechten (-2 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 „flüstern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Filz
Filz
75,284 corpus weight
- finanzierten
finanzierten
75,283 corpus weight
- flechten
flechten
75,282 corpus weight
- flüstern
flüstern
75,280 corpus weight
- FPS
FPS
75,278 corpus weight
- fragwürdige
fragwürdige
75,277 corpus weight
What this shows „flüstern“ 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 | flüstern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈflʏstɐn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „flüstern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around flüstern (IPA [ˈflʏstɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,721 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mit gesenkter, leiser Stimme sprechen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for flüstern, with forms such as "fflüstern", "fllüstern", and "flsütern". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "fluten", "füttern", "flüstert", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 flüstern, spelled F-L-Ü-S-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1mit gesenkter, leiser Stimme sprechen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flüstern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich habe eine kleine Überraschung für dich“, flüsterte sie geheimnisvoll in ihr Ohr.
„Meine Großmutter hat immer mit meiner Mutter geflüstert.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflüstern
- fllüstern
- flsütern
- flüsetrn
- flüsstern
- flüstenr
- flüsternn
- flüsterrn
- flüstren
- flüsttern
- flütsern
- fülstern
- lfüstern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flüstern - 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 "flüstern", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).