impulse
[ˈɪmpʌls]
The verdict
“impulse” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,937. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,937
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antrieb, Stoß, Triebkraft
Corpus desk
Index DE-impulse · impulse · German
impulse · rank #7,937 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,937
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH inspiriert
Nearest frequency peer: inspiriert (+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 „impulse“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Homo
Homo
92,068 corpus weight
- Hunden
Hunden
92,066 corpus weight
- impulse
impulse
92,064 corpus weight
- inspiriert
inspiriert
92,063 corpus weight
- Inszenierung
Inszenierung
92,062 corpus weight
- Jordan
Jordan
92,060 corpus weight
What this shows „impulse“ 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 | impulse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɪmpʌls] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „impulse“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around impulse (IPA [ˈɪmpʌls]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,937 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for impulse, with forms such as "immpulse", "impluse", and "imppulse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Impulsen", "Impuls", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is impulse, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-E.
Definition
- 1Antrieb, Stoß, Triebkraft
- 2Impuls, Anstoß, Anreiz, Anregung, plötzliche Regung, plötzliche Eingebung
- 3Impuls
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impulse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"He was clearly so scared by his mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his bird."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpulse
- impluse
- imppulse
- impules
- impullse
- impulsse
- impusle
- imuplse
- ipmulse
- mipulse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impulse - 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 "impulse", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).