handgreiflich
[ˈhantˌɡʁaɪ̯flɪç]
The verdict
“handgreiflich” has 21 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #42,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,559
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gewalt anwendend
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | handgreiflich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈhantˌɡʁaɪ̯flɪç] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #42,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “handgreiflich” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around handgreiflich (IPA [ˈhantˌɡʁaɪ̯flɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,559 among 59,066 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for handgreiflich, with forms such as "ahndgreiflich", "hadngreiflich", and "handdgreiflich". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is handgreiflich, spelled H-A-N-D-G-R-E-I-F-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1Gewalt anwendend
- 2für die Augen sichtbar, offensichtlich
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahndgreiflich
- hadngreiflich
- handdgreiflich
- handgeriflich
- handggreiflich
- handgrefilich
- handgreifflich
- handgreifilch
- handgreiflcih
- handgreiflicch
- handgreiflichh
- handgreiflihc
- handgreifllich
- handgreilfich
- handgrieflich
- handgrreiflich
- handrgeiflich
- hangdreiflich
- hanndgreiflich
- hhandgreiflich
- hnadgreiflich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of handgreiflich - 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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Using “handgreiflich”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-N-D-G-R-E-I-F-L-I-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhantˌɡʁaɪ̯flɪç] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.