follower
[ˈfɒləʊə(r)]
The verdict
“follower” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,218. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,218
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gefolgsmann, Mitläufer
Corpus desk
Index DE-follower · follower · German
follower · rank #19,218 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,218
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Formulare
Nearest frequency peer: Formulare (+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 „follower“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Fingerabdrü…
Fingerabdrücke
80,787 corpus weight
- Fischerei
Fischerei
80,786 corpus weight
- follower
follower
80,783 corpus weight
- Formulare
Formulare
80,782 corpus weight
- franchise
franchise
80,781 corpus weight
- freigeschal…
freigeschaltet
80,780 corpus weight
What this shows „follower“ 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 | follower |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɒləʊə(r)] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „follower“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around follower (IPA [ˈfɒləʊə(r)]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,218 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for follower, with forms such as "ffollower", "flolower", and "folloewr". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Followern", "follow", "flower", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is follower, spelled F-O-L-L-O-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1Gefolgsmann, Mitläufer
- 2Jünger
- 3Verfolger
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffollower
- flolower
- folloewr
- followerr
- followre
- followwer
- follwoer
- fololwer
- folower
- ofllower
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of follower - 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 "follower", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).