friedlich
[ˈfʁiːtlɪç]
The verdict
“friedlich” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,588
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Gewalt und Krieg; in Frieden
Corpus desk
Index DE-friedlich · friedlich · German
friedlich · rank #5,588 · 14 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,588
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fotografie
Nearest frequency peer: Fotografie (-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 „friedlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Erlaubnis
Erlaubnis
94,416 corpus weight
- eröffnen
eröffnen
94,415 corpus weight
- Fotografie
Fotografie
94,414 corpus weight
- friedlich
friedlich
94,413 corpus weight
- gefährliche
gefährliche
94,412 corpus weight
- geklaut
geklaut
94,411 corpus weight
What this shows „friedlich“ 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 | friedlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈfʁiːtlɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „friedlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around friedlich (IPA [ˈfʁiːtlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,588 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for friedlich, with forms such as "ffriedlich", "firedlich", and "freidlich". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Friedrich", "friedliche", "Friedrichs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is friedlich, spelled F-R-I-E-D-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1ohne Gewalt und Krieg; in Frieden
- 2eine gewaltlose Lebenseinstellung besitzend
- 3beschaulich, leise seiend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how friedlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wir lebten damals in friedlichen Zeiten.“
„Wie der Untergang des habsburgischen Reichs hätte der Zerfall des sowjetischen Imperiums erfahrungsgemäss zahllose, endlose Konflikte nach sich ziehen müssen. Aber es blieb friedlich in allen osteuropäischen Staaten, denen die EU den Beitritt anbieten konnte.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffriedlich
- firedlich
- freidlich
- fridelich
- frieddlich
- friedilch
- friedlcih
- friedlicch
- friedlichh
- friedlihc
- friedllich
- frieldich
- frriedlich
- rfiedlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of friedlich - 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 "friedlich", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).