Gefühls
[ɡəˈfyːls]
The verdict
“Gefühls” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #43,203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,203
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Gefühl
Corpus desk
Index DE-gefuhls · Gefühls · German
Gefühls · rank #43,203 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,203
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gefragter
Nearest frequency peer: gefragter (-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 „Gefühls“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Gefieder
Gefieder
56,801 corpus weight
- Gefilde
Gefilde
56,800 corpus weight
- gefragter
gefragter
56,799 corpus weight
- Gefühls
Gefühls
56,798 corpus weight
- geheizt
geheizt
56,797 corpus weight
- gelassener
gelassener
56,796 corpus weight
What this shows „Gefühls“ 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 | Gefühls |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfyːls] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gefühls“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Gefühls (IPA [ɡəˈfyːls]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,203 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Gefühl".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gefühls, with forms such as "egfühls", "geffühls", and "gefhüls". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "geführt", "gefühlt", "gefüllt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Gefühls, spelled G-E-F-Ü-H-L-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Gefühl
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egfühls
- geffühls
- gefhüls
- gefühhls
- gefühlls
- gefühlss
- gefühsl
- gefülhs
- geüfhls
- gfeühls
- ggefühls
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gefühls - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Gefühls", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).