fortwährend
[ˈfɔʁtˌvɛːʁənt]
The verdict
“fortwährend” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,039. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,039
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (zur Unzufriedenheit oder Verwunderung des Sprechers) sich immer wiederholend, immer wieder auftretend, so dass es stört oder als unangenehm empfunden wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-fortwahrend · fortwährend · German
fortwährend · rank #32,039 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,039
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH forcieren
Nearest frequency peer: forcieren (-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 „fortwährend“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- flankiert
flankiert
67,966 corpus weight
- fler
fler
67,965 corpus weight
- forcieren
forcieren
67,963 corpus weight
- fortwährend
fortwährend
67,962 corpus weight
- forza
forza
67,961 corpus weight
- freiwilliges
freiwilliges
67,959 corpus weight
What this shows „fortwährend“ 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 | fortwährend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈfɔʁtˌvɛːʁənt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #32,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „fortwährend“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around fortwährend (IPA [ˈfɔʁtˌvɛːʁənt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,039 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(zur Unzufriedenheit oder Verwunderung des Sprechers) sich immer wiederholend, immer wieder auftretend, so dass es stört oder als unangenehm empfunden wird".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for fortwährend, with forms such as "ffortwährend", "forrtwährend", and "forttwährend". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "fortfahren", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 fortwährend, spelled F-O-R-T-W-Ä-H-R-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1(zur Unzufriedenheit oder Verwunderung des Sprechers) sich immer wiederholend, immer wieder auftretend, so dass es stört oder als unangenehm empfunden wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fortwährend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fortwährend klingelte sein Mobiltelefon.
Der Geldmangel ist ein fortwährendes Problem der Jugendeinrichtungen in den Gemeinden.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffortwährend
- forrtwährend
- forttwährend
- fortwhärend
- fortwwährend
- fortwähernd
- fortwähhrend
- fortwähredn
- fortwährendd
- fortwährennd
- fortwährned
- fortwährrend
- fortwärhend
- fortäwhrend
- forwtährend
- fotrwährend
- frotwährend
- ofrtwährend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fortwährend - 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 "fortwährend", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).