gefälscht
[ɡəˈfɛlʃt]
The verdict
“gefälscht” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,437. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,437
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - illegal nachgemacht
Corpus desk
Index DE-gefalscht · gefälscht · German
gefälscht · rank #16,437 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,437
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gefundenen
Nearest frequency peer: gefundenen (-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 “gefälscht”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Gamer
Gamer
83,567 corpus weight
- Garderobe
Garderobe
83,566 corpus weight
- gefundenen
gefundenen
83,565 corpus weight
- gefälscht
gefälscht
83,564 corpus weight
- gefüllten
gefüllten
83,563 corpus weight
- gehörenden
gehörenden
83,562 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “gefälscht” 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 | gefälscht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfɛlʃt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gefälscht” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around gefälscht (IPA [ɡəˈfɛlʃt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,437 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "illegal nachgemacht".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for gefälscht, with forms such as "egfälscht", "geffälscht", and "gefläscht". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Geflecht", "gefischt", "getauscht", and more, 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 gefälscht, spelled G-E-F-Ä-L-S-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1illegal nachgemacht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gefälscht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die jüdischen Kinder sollten mithilfe gefälschter Pässe zu nichtjüdischen Kindern werden, die sich auf dem Land zur Kur aufhielten.“
[Coronapandemie 2021:] „Trainer Markus Anfang tritt bei Werder Bremen zurück – […] Am Donnerstag war bekannt geworden, dass gegen den 47-jährigen Anfang Ermittlungen wegen eines gefälschten Impfzertifikates laufen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egfälscht
- geffälscht
- gefläscht
- gefälcsht
- gefällscht
- gefälsccht
- gefälschht
- gefälschtt
- gefälscth
- gefälshct
- gefälsscht
- gefäslcht
- geäflscht
- gfeälscht
- ggefälscht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gefälscht - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gefälscht", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).
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.