Irische
[ˈiːʁɪʃə]
The verdict
“Irische” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,292. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,292
- frequency rank, German
- 17,725
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular des Substantivs Irisch
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 | Irische |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈiːʁɪʃə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Irische” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Irische (IPA [ˈiːʁɪʃə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,292 among 17,725 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Irische, with forms such as "iirsche", "iricshe", and "iriscche". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Irish", "Irischen", "irischer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Irische, spelled I-R-I-S-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular des Substantivs Irisch
- 2Akkusativ Singular des Substantivs Irisch
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iirsche
- iricshe
- iriscche
- irisceh
- irischhe
- irishce
- irissche
- irrische
- irsiche
- riische
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Irische - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Irische”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is I-R-I-S-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈiːʁɪʃə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Irish” - see the side-by-side comparison. Irische vs Irish
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.