fürchterlich
[ˈfʏʁçtɐlɪç]
The verdict
“fürchterlich” has 20 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,433
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erschreckend, grauenhaft
Corpus desk
Index DE-furchterlich · fürchterlich · German
fürchterlich · rank #16,433 · 20 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,433
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Förderer
Nearest frequency peer: Förderer (-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 „fürchterlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- fungieren
fungieren
83,571 corpus weight
- furchtbare
furchtbare
83,570 corpus weight
- Förderer
Förderer
83,569 corpus weight
- fürchterlich
fürchterlich
83,568 corpus weight
- Gamer
Gamer
83,567 corpus weight
- Garderobe
Garderobe
83,566 corpus weight
What this shows „fürchterlich“ 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 | fürchterlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈfʏʁçtɐlɪç] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #16,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „fürchterlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around fürchterlich (IPA [ˈfʏʁçtɐlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,433 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for fürchterlich, with forms such as "ffürchterlich", "früchterlich", and "fücrhterlich". 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, "fürchterliche", "fürchterlichen", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is fürchterlich, spelled F-Ü-R-C-H-T-E-R-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1erschreckend, grauenhaft
- 2äußerst
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fürchterlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein fürchterliches Ereignis überschattete den ganzen Tag.
„Er wird Gog und Magog um sich scharen, zwei Völker von den Enden der Erde; der Messias wird erneut erscheinen, und nach einem fürchterlichen Endkampf, dem Armageddon, werden Satan und alle, die im gefolgt sind, vom ewigen Höllenfeuer verschlungen werden.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffürchterlich
- früchterlich
- fücrhterlich
- fürcchterlich
- fürchetrlich
- fürchhterlich
- fürchtelrich
- fürchterilch
- fürchterlcih
- fürchterlicch
- fürchterlichh
- fürchterlihc
- fürchterllich
- fürchterrlich
- fürchtrelich
- fürchtterlich
- fürctherlich
- fürhcterlich
- fürrchterlich
- üfrchterlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fürchterlich - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "fürchterlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).