oberflächlich
[ˈoːbɐˌflɛçlɪç]
The verdict
“oberflächlich” has 21 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,554. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,554
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Oberfläche eines Gegenstandes oder einer Sache betreffend, sich auf die Oberfläche beziehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-oberflachlich · oberflächlich · German
oberflächlich · rank #12,554 · 21 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,554
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Nova
Nearest frequency peer: Nova (-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 „oberflächlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Nokia
Nokia
87,450 corpus weight
- Nordosten
Nordosten
87,449 corpus weight
- Nova
Nova
87,448 corpus weight
- oberflächli…
oberflächlich
87,447 corpus weight
- Oberpfalz
Oberpfalz
87,446 corpus weight
- OLG
OLG
87,445 corpus weight
What this shows „oberflächlich“ 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 | oberflächlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈoːbɐˌflɛçlɪç] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #12,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „oberflächlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around oberflächlich (IPA [ˈoːbɐˌflɛçlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,554 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for oberflächlich, with forms such as "boerflächlich", "obberflächlich", and "obefrlächlich". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "oberflächliche", "oberflächlichen", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 oberflächlich, spelled O-B-E-R-F-L-Ä-C-H-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1die Oberfläche eines Gegenstandes oder einer Sache betreffend, sich auf die Oberfläche beziehend
- 2nicht gründlich oder auch nicht gründlich genug, nur das Äußere beachtend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oberflächlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Berge waren oberflächlich von Schnee bedeckt.
Aus Krampfadern kann eine oberflächliche Venenentzündung entstehen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boerflächlich
- obberflächlich
- obefrlächlich
- oberfflächlich
- oberflcählich
- oberfllächlich
- oberfläcchlich
- oberflächhlich
- oberflächilch
- oberflächlcih
- oberflächlicch
- oberflächlichh
- oberflächlihc
- oberflächllich
- oberfläclhich
- oberflähclich
- oberfälchlich
- oberlfächlich
- oberrflächlich
- obreflächlich
- oebrflächlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oberflächlich - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).