Luftlinie
[ˈlʊftˌliːni̯ə]
The verdict
“Luftlinie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,246. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,246
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gedachte Linie; kürzeste Entfernung zwischen zwei Orten
Corpus desk
Index DE-luftlinie · Luftlinie · German
Luftlinie · rank #34,246 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,246
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lokalisieren
Nearest frequency peer: lokalisieren (-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 „Luftlinie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- lew
lew
65,759 corpus weight
- Lobbyismus
Lobbyismus
65,757 corpus weight
- lokalisieren
lokalisieren
65,756 corpus weight
- Luftlinie
Luftlinie
65,755 corpus weight
- Lösungsmitt…
Lösungsmittel
65,754 corpus weight
- Macke
Macke
65,753 corpus weight
What this shows „Luftlinie“ 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 | Luftlinie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlʊftˌliːni̯ə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Luftlinie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Luftlinie (IPA [ˈlʊftˌliːni̯ə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,246 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Luftlinie, with forms such as "lfutlinie", "lluftlinie", and "lufftlinie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Leitlinie", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Luftlinie, spelled L-U-F-T-L-I-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1gedachte Linie; kürzeste Entfernung zwischen zwei Orten
- 2Unternehmen, das Flugverkehr betreibt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Luftlinie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Entfernung beträgt nur 300 m Luftlinie.
„750 Kilometer Luftlinie trennen die beiden Orte, die Reise birgt viele Gefahren, und so engagiert Tobit, der Vater des Tobias, den Mann Asarja als Reisebegleiter.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lfutlinie
- lluftlinie
- lufftlinie
- lufltinie
- luftilnie
- luftliine
- luftlinei
- luftlinnie
- luftllinie
- luftlniie
- lufttlinie
- lutflinie
- ulftlinie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Luftlinie - 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 "Luftlinie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).