giftig
[ˈɡɪftɪç]
The verdict
“giftig” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,599. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,599
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gesundheitsschädlich, schadstoffhaltig
Corpus desk
Index DE-giftig · giftig · German
giftig · rank #17,599 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,599
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gewonnene
Nearest frequency peer: gewonnene (-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 „giftig“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- geschädigt
geschädigt
82,405 corpus weight
- Gespür
Gespür
82,404 corpus weight
- gewonnene
gewonnene
82,403 corpus weight
- giftig
giftig
82,402 corpus weight
- glich
glich
82,401 corpus weight
- glänzende
glänzende
82,400 corpus weight
What this shows „giftig“ 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 | giftig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɡɪftɪç] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „giftig“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around giftig (IPA [ˈɡɪftɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,599 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for giftig, with forms such as "gfitig", "ggiftig", and "gifftig". 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, "gütig", "gültig", "giftige", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is giftig, spelled G-I-F-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1gesundheitsschädlich, schadstoffhaltig
- 2Mensch, reizbar, aufbrausend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how giftig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viele Pilzarten sind für den Menschen giftig.
„Man kann beispielsweise Pflanzen mittels Gentechnik so manipulieren, dass sie gegen bestimmte Krankheiten immun oder unempfindlich gegen sonst giftige chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel werden.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gfitig
- ggiftig
- gifftig
- gifitg
- giftgi
- giftigg
- gifttig
- gitfig
- igftig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of giftig - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "giftig", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).