flying
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The verdict
“flying” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #23,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,936
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs fly
Corpus desk
Index DE-flying · flying · German
flying · rank #23,936 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,936
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fluchen
Nearest frequency peer: fluchen (-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 „flying“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- finster
finster
76,069 corpus weight
- Fledermäuse
Fledermäuse
76,068 corpus weight
- fluchen
fluchen
76,066 corpus weight
- flying
flying
76,065 corpus weight
- fokussieren
fokussieren
76,064 corpus weight
- follow
follow
76,063 corpus weight
What this shows „flying“ 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 | flying |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „flying“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around flying (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,936 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs fly".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for flying, with forms such as "fflying", "fliyng", and "fllying". 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, "of", "ii", "TO", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is flying, spelled F-L-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs fly
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflying
- fliyng
- fllying
- flyign
- flyingg
- flyinng
- flynig
- flyying
- fyling
- lfying
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flying - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "flying", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).