gefährlich
[ɡəˈfɛːɐ̯lɪç]
The verdict
“gefährlich” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #2,108. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,108
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit Gefahr, Risiko verbunden
Corpus desk
Index DE-gefahrlich · gefährlich · German
gefährlich · rank #2,108 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,108
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gebraucht
Nearest frequency peer: gebraucht (-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 „gefährlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Entscheidun…
Entscheidungen
97,896 corpus weight
- Gang
Gang
97,895 corpus weight
- gebraucht
gebraucht
97,894 corpus weight
- gefährlich
gefährlich
97,893 corpus weight
- Gerät
Gerät
97,892 corpus weight
- gewisse
gewisse
97,891 corpus weight
What this shows „gefährlich“ 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 | gefährlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfɛːɐ̯lɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gefährlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around gefährlich (IPA [ɡəˈfɛːɐ̯lɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,108 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mit Gefahr, Risiko verbunden".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for gefährlich, with forms such as "egfährlich", "geffährlich", and "gefhärlich". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "gefährliche", "gefährlichen", "gefährlicher", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is gefährlich, spelled G-E-F-Ä-H-R-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1mit Gefahr, Risiko verbunden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gefährlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Kreuzung erwies sich immer wieder als sehr gefährlich.
„Das Bundesarbeitsgericht hat sogar das Drachenfliegen als nicht besonders gefährlich angesehen.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egfährlich
- geffährlich
- gefhärlich
- gefähhrlich
- gefählrich
- gefährilch
- gefährlcih
- gefährlicch
- gefährlichh
- gefährlihc
- gefährllich
- gefährrlich
- gefärhlich
- geäfhrlich
- gfeährlich
- ggefährlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gefährlich - 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 "gefährlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).