Gefahr

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Gefahr is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈfaːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #990 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Möglichkeit, dass Schaden oder eine Verletzung entsteht".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Gefahr, with forms such as "egfahr", "geafhr", and "gefahhr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Gefühl", "Gewehr", "genäht", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Gefahr, spelled G-E-F-A-H-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.