Fundament
[fʊndaˈmɛnt]
The verdict
“Fundament” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,549. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,549
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Unterbau eines Gebäudes oder einer Maschine
Corpus desk
Index DE-fundament · Fundament · German
Fundament · rank #9,549 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,549
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Frucht
Nearest frequency peer: Frucht (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Fundament”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- friedliche
friedliche
90,455 corpus weight
- Frisur
Frisur
90,454 corpus weight
- Frucht
Frucht
90,453 corpus weight
- Fundament
Fundament
90,452 corpus weight
- fürchtet
fürchtet
90,451 corpus weight
- Gebote
Gebote
90,449 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Fundament” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Fundament |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fʊndaˈmɛnt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Fundament” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Fundament (IPA [fʊndaˈmɛnt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,549 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Fundament, with forms such as "ffundament", "fnudament", and "fudnament". 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, "Fundamente", "fundamental", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Fundament, spelled F-U-N-D-A-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1der Unterbau eines Gebäudes oder einer Maschine
- 2Grundlage von etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fundament appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Für das Fundament des Hauses ist noch Erde auszuheben.
„Sie stand neben ihm, als die Fundamente des neuen Zuhauses gelegt wurden.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffundament
- fnudament
- fudnament
- funadment
- fundaemnt
- fundamennt
- fundamentt
- fundametn
- fundamment
- fundamnet
- funddament
- fundmaent
- funndament
- ufndament
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Fundament - 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 "Fundament", 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).
What to do next
You've looked up "Fundament". Here's where to go from here.
- "Fundament" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Fundamente". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #9,549 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "F" letter cohort. F–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.