gedeihen
[ɡəˈdaɪ̯ən]
The verdict
“gedeihen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,919. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,919
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich im Wachstum gut entwickeln; gut wachsen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gedeihen · gedeihen · German
gedeihen · rank #19,919 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,919
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Garnichts
Nearest frequency peer: Garnichts (-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 „gedeihen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- färbt
färbt
80,085 corpus weight
- Garnichts
Garnichts
80,083 corpus weight
- gedeihen
gedeihen
80,082 corpus weight
- geheimes
geheimes
80,081 corpus weight
- gelehrte
gelehrte
80,080 corpus weight
- Gelenke
Gelenke
80,079 corpus weight
What this shows „gedeihen“ 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 | gedeihen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈdaɪ̯ən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gedeihen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around gedeihen (IPA [ɡəˈdaɪ̯ən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,919 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for gedeihen, with forms such as "egdeihen", "gdeeihen", and "geddeihen". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "gesehen", "gedeiht", "gedenken", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is gedeihen, spelled G-E-D-E-I-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich im Wachstum gut entwickeln; gut wachsen
- 2in einem Entwicklungsprozess Fortschritte machen; vorankommen, voranschreiten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gedeihen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Bäumchen im Blumentopf gedeihen gar prächtig.
„Nahe dem Äquator gedeihen Bäume in strahlender Sonne, heftigem Regen und ganzjähriger Wärme.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egdeihen
- gdeeihen
- geddeihen
- gedehien
- gedeiehn
- gedeihenn
- gedeihhen
- gedeihne
- gediehen
- geedihen
- ggedeihen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gedeihen - 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 "gedeihen", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).