harmlos
[ˈhaʁmloːs]
The verdict
“harmlos” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,387
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - völlig unschädlich und ungefährlich, frei von Aggressionen
Corpus desk
Index DE-harmlos · harmlos · German
harmlos · rank #8,387 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,387
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hard
Nearest frequency peer: hard (-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 „harmlos“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- grundlegend
grundlegend
91,617 corpus weight
- Grundsatz
Grundsatz
91,616 corpus weight
- hard
hard
91,615 corpus weight
- harmlos
harmlos
91,614 corpus weight
- Hauch
Hauch
91,613 corpus weight
- heftige
heftige
91,612 corpus weight
What this shows „harmlos“ 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 | harmlos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈhaʁmloːs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „harmlos“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around harmlos (IPA [ˈhaʁmloːs]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,387 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for harmlos, with forms such as "ahrmlos", "hamrlos", and "harlmos". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Harms", "herzlos", "harmlose", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is harmlos, spelled H-A-R-M-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1völlig unschädlich und ungefährlich, frei von Aggressionen
- 2ohne größere schädliche Wirkungen oder schlimme Folgen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how harmlos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Goldfische sind harmlose Tiere.
Der Hund ist ganz harmlos, der will nur spielen!
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahrmlos
- hamrlos
- harlmos
- harmllos
- harmloss
- harmlso
- harmmlos
- harmols
- harrmlos
- hharmlos
- hramlos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of harmlos - 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 "harmlos", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).