Frankfurt
[ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt]
The verdict
“Frankfurt” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #669
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-frankfurt · Frankfurt · German
Frankfurt · rank #669 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #669
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH einigen
Nearest frequency peer: einigen (-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 „Frankfurt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- April
April
99,335 corpus weight
- deiner
deiner
99,334 corpus weight
- einigen
einigen
99,333 corpus weight
- Frankfurt
Frankfurt
99,332 corpus weight
- Freund
Freund
99,331 corpus weight
- insbesondere
insbesondere
99,330 corpus weight
What this shows „Frankfurt“ 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 | Frankfurt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Frankfurt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Frankfurt (IPA [ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #669 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Frankfurt, with forms such as "farnkfurt", "ffrankfurt", and "fraknfurt". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Frankfurts", "Frankfurter", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Frankfurt, spelled F-R-A-N-K-F-U-R-T.
Definition
- 1Stadt in Hessen, Deutschland
- 2Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
- 3Historische Bezeichnungen siehe unter Wikipedia
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Frankfurt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frankfurt ist die Metropole im Rhein-Main-Gebiet.
„Noch am gleichen Abend ging eine Postkutsche nach Frankfurt ab.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farnkfurt
- ffrankfurt
- fraknfurt
- franfkurt
- frankffurt
- frankfrut
- frankfurrt
- frankfurtt
- frankfutr
- frankkfurt
- frankufrt
- frannkfurt
- frnakfurt
- frrankfurt
- rfankfurt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Frankfurt - 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 "Frankfurt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).