friends
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The verdict
“friends” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,235. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,235
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs friend
Corpus desk
Index DE-friends · friends · German
friends · rank #11,235 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,235
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Frey
Nearest frequency peer: Frey (-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 „friends“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Flüsse
Flüsse
88,768 corpus weight
- Frey
Frey
88,767 corpus weight
- friends
friends
88,766 corpus weight
- Funken
Funken
88,765 corpus weight
- Fächern
Fächern
88,764 corpus weight
- füttern
füttern
88,763 corpus weight
What this shows „friends“ 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 | friends |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „friends“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around friends (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,235 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs friend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for friends, with forms such as "ffriends", "firends", and "freinds". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "frings", "of", "ii", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is friends, spelled F-R-I-E-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs friend
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffriends
- firends
- freinds
- friedns
- friendds
- friendss
- friennds
- friensd
- frineds
- frriends
- rfiends
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of friends - 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 "friends", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).