geschrieben
[ɡəˈʃʁiːbn̩]
The verdict
“geschrieben” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #856
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schriftlich festgehalten
Corpus desk
Index DE-geschrieben · geschrieben · German
geschrieben · rank #856 · 17 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #856
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gedacht
Nearest frequency peer: gedacht (-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 „geschrieben“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Deutscher
Deutscher
99,148 corpus weight
- Firma
Firma
99,147 corpus weight
- gedacht
gedacht
99,146 corpus weight
- geschrieben
geschrieben
99,145 corpus weight
- gewinnen
gewinnen
99,144 corpus weight
- hohen
hohen
99,143 corpus weight
What this shows „geschrieben“ 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 | geschrieben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃʁiːbn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „geschrieben“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around geschrieben (IPA [ɡəˈʃʁiːbn̩]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #856 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "schriftlich festgehalten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for geschrieben, with forms such as "egschrieben", "gecshrieben", and "gescchrieben". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "geschrien", "geschwiegen", "geschriebene", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is geschrieben, spelled G-E-S-C-H-R-I-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1schriftlich festgehalten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how geschrieben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Seine Geschichte ist noch nicht geschrieben.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egschrieben
- gecshrieben
- gescchrieben
- geschhrieben
- geschireben
- geschreiben
- geschribeen
- geschriebben
- geschriebenn
- geschriebne
- geschrieebn
- geschrrieben
- gescrhieben
- geshcrieben
- gesschrieben
- ggeschrieben
- gsechrieben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of geschrieben - 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 "geschrieben", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).