General
[ɡenəˈʁaːl]
The verdict
“General” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,634. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,634
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Offiziersdienstgrad
Corpus desk
Index DE-general · General · German
General · rank #1,634 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,634
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH find
Nearest frequency peer: find (-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 „General“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Filme
Filme
98,370 corpus weight
- Finale
Finale
98,369 corpus weight
- find
find
98,368 corpus weight
- General
General
98,367 corpus weight
- geschlossen
geschlossen
98,366 corpus weight
- Kaiser
Kaiser
98,365 corpus weight
What this shows „General“ 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 | General |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡenəˈʁaːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „General“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around General (IPA [ɡenəˈʁaːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,634 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for General, with forms such as "egneral", "geenral", and "genearl". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "genial", "genervt", "generell", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 General, spelled G-E-N-E-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Offiziersdienstgrad
- 2Offiziersdienstgrad
- 3Offiziersdienstgrad
- 4Offizier, der den Dienstgrad eines Generals innehat, im weiteren Sinne jeder Offizier der Laufbahngruppe der Generale
- 5oberster Vorsteher einer Ordensgemeinschaft
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how General appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er wurde etwas verspätet zum General befördert.
Der General ritt selbst an der Spitze seiner Truppen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egneral
- geenral
- genearl
- generall
- generla
- generral
- genneral
- genreal
- ggeneral
- gneeral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of General - 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 "General", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).