Freak
[fʁiːk]
The verdict
“Freak” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,970. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,970
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Mensch, der sich leidenschaftlich mit einem bestimmten Thema befasst und meist seine ganze Freizeit, wenn nicht gar sein ganzes Leben dieser einen Sache widmet
Corpus desk
Index DE-freak · Freak · German
Freak · rank #21,970 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,970
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Frisuren
Nearest frequency peer: Frisuren (+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 „Freak“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- fixen
fixen
78,034 corpus weight
- fossile
fossile
78,033 corpus weight
- Freak
Freak
78,031 corpus weight
- Frisuren
Frisuren
78,030 corpus weight
- fruchtbaren
fruchtbaren
78,029 corpus weight
- Funktionär
Funktionär
78,028 corpus weight
What this shows „Freak“ 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 | Freak |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fʁiːk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Freak“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Freak (IPA [fʁiːk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,970 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Freak, with forms such as "ferak", "ffreak", and "fraek". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "frei", "free", "freu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Freak, spelled F-R-E-A-K.
Definition
- 1ein Mensch, der sich leidenschaftlich mit einem bestimmten Thema befasst und meist seine ganze Freizeit, wenn nicht gar sein ganzes Leben dieser einen Sache widmet
- 2eine Person, die über von der Allgemeinheit als seltsam und anders eingestufte Eigenschaften verfügt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Freak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn es um das Sammeln von Plüschtieren geht, ist meine Freundin ein echter Freak.
„Als ich siebzehn Jahre alt war, hielten mich viele für einen Freak, sowohl in meiner Familie als auch in der Schule und in dem Viertel, in dem ich in Bagdad aufwuchs.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ferak
- ffreak
- fraek
- freakk
- freka
- frreak
- rfeak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Freak - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Freak", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).