glücklicherweise
[ˌɡlʏklɪçɐˈvaɪ̯zə]
The verdict
“glücklicherweise” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #7,331 in German word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #7,331
- frequency rank, German
- 16
- letters
- 25
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — aufgrund eines glücklichen Umstandes, durch glückliche Fügung
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glücklicherweise |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˌɡlʏklɪçɐˈvaɪ̯zə] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #7,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 25 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glücklicherweise” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for glücklicherweise is 16 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌɡlʏklɪçɐˈvaɪ̯zə]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,331 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "aufgrund eines glücklichen Umstandes, durch glückliche Fügung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 25 likely wrong-spelling variants for glücklicherweise, with forms such as "gglücklicherweise", "glcüklicherweise", and "gllücklicherweise". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is glücklicherweise, spelled G-L-Ü-C-K-L-I-C-H-E-R-W-E-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aufgrund eines glücklichen Umstandes, durch glückliche Fügung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gglücklicherweise,glcüklicherweise,gllücklicherweise,glüccklicherweise,glückilcherweise,glückklicherweise,glücklciherweise,glückliccherweise,glücklicehrweise,glücklicherewise,glücklicherrweise,glücklicherweies,glücklicherweisse,glücklicherwesie,glücklicherwiese,glücklicherwweise,glücklichewreise,glücklichherweise,glücklichreweise,glücklihcerweise,glückllicherweise,glüclkicherweise,glükclicherweise,gülcklicherweise,lgücklicherweise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glücklicherweise - 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 "glücklicherweise"
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-L-Ü-C-K-L-I-C-H-E-R-W-E-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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