gepflegte

Name: gepflegte, German Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[ɡəˈp͡fleːktə]

/[ɡəˈp͡fleːktə]/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“gepflegte” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #26,897. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,897
frequency rank, German: 5,117
“G” headwords: 14
tracked misspellings: 3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt

Corpus desk

Index DE-gepflegte · gepflegte · German

gepflegte · rank #26,897 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

FREQ-MID #26,897
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
VAR-HIGH 14 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,117
PHOTO-FINISH Genehmigungen

Nearest frequency peer: Genehmigungen (-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.

gelegentlic…

73,107
gemeinschaf…

73,106
Genehmigung…

73,105
gepflegte

73,104
Geschicke

73,103
geschickte

73,102

What this shows „gepflegte“ 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).

gepflegte vs gepflegten

90% similar

gepflegte vs gepflegtes

90% similar

gepflegte vs gepflegt

89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gepflegte
Property	Value
Headword	gepflegte
Language	German
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	[ɡəˈp͡fleːktə]
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#26,897
Misspellings tracked	14
Confusable pairs	3
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gepflegte“

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).gepflegteliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#26,897

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Genehmigungen“ (#26,896), „Geschicke“ (#26,898), „gemeinschaftlichen“ (#26,895). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „gepflegte“ bei #26,897. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around gepflegte (IPA [ɡəˈp͡fleːktə]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,897 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for gepflegte, with forms such as "egpflegte", "gefplegte", and "gepfelgte". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "gepflegten", "gepflegtes", "gepflegt", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 gepflegte, spelled G-E-P-F-L-E-G-T-E.

Definition

1
Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt
2
Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt
3
Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt
4
Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt
5
Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt
6
Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt
7
Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt
8
Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt
9
Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

egpflegte
gefplegte
gepfelgte
gepfflegte
gepfleget
gepfleggte
gepflegtte
gepfletge
gepflgete
gepfllegte
geplfegte
geppflegte
ggepflegte
gpeflegte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gepflegte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "gepflegte"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gepflegte"?

"gepflegte" is spelled G-E-P-F-L-E-G-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡəˈp͡fleːktə].

What does "gepflegte" mean?

As an adjective, "gepflegte" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gepflegt

What words are commonly confused with "gepflegte"?

"gepflegte" is commonly confused with "gepflegten", "gepflegtes", "gepflegt". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "gepflegte"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gepflegte" is [ɡəˈp͡fleːktə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "gepflegte" come from?

"gepflegte" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gepflegte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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