Freiheit
[ˈfʁaɪ̯haɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Freiheit” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,132
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zustand, bei dem jemand von allen Zwängen und Pflichten frei ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-freiheit · Freiheit · German
Freiheit · rank #1,132 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,132
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH freien
Nearest frequency peer: freien (-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 „Freiheit“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Fenster
Fenster
98,872 corpus weight
- for
for
98,871 corpus weight
- freien
freien
98,870 corpus weight
- Freiheit
Freiheit
98,869 corpus weight
- Hannover
Hannover
98,868 corpus weight
- jemanden
jemanden
98,867 corpus weight
What this shows „Freiheit“ 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 | Freiheit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfʁaɪ̯haɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Freiheit“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Freiheit (IPA [ˈfʁaɪ̯haɪ̯t]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,132 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Freiheit, with forms such as "feriheit", "ffreiheit", and "frehieit". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Freizeit", "Freiherr", "Freiheiten", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Freiheit, spelled F-R-E-I-H-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1Zustand, bei dem jemand von allen Zwängen und Pflichten frei ist
- 2in der freien Natur; nicht eingesperrt
- 3Recht, das jemandem zusteht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Freiheit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Freiheit nur für die Anhänger der Regierung, nur für Mitglieder einer Partei – mögen sie noch so zahlreich sein – ist keine Freiheit. Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden.“
„Wenn einem die Freiheit gewaltsam genommen wird, ist man natürlich nicht lächerlich, es sei denn für den, der sie einem gewaltsam genommen hat.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feriheit
- ffreiheit
- frehieit
- freiehit
- freiheitt
- freiheti
- freihheit
- freihiet
- frieheit
- friehiet
- frreiheit
- rfeiheit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Freiheit - 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 "Freiheit", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).