offiziell
[ɔfiˈt͡si̯ɛl]
The verdict
“offiziell” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,856
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von einer dazu befugten Person oder Stelle ausgehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-offiziell · offiziell · German
offiziell · rank #1,856 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,856
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH PC
Nearest frequency peer: PC (+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 „offiziell“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- leichter
leichter
98,148 corpus weight
- Main
Main
98,147 corpus weight
- offiziell
offiziell
98,145 corpus weight
- PC
PC
98,144 corpus weight
- quellen
quellen
98,143 corpus weight
- Roman
Roman
98,142 corpus weight
What this shows „offiziell“ 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 | offiziell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɔfiˈt͡si̯ɛl] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „offiziell“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around offiziell (IPA [ɔfiˈt͡si̯ɛl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,856 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for offiziell, with forms such as "fofiziell", "offiizell", and "offizeill". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Offizier", "Offiziere", "Offiziers", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 offiziell, spelled O-F-F-I-Z-I-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1von einer dazu befugten Person oder Stelle ausgehend
- 2in öffentlichem, oftmals formalem und feierlichem Rahmen
- 3den Sachverhalt betreffend, der als Fassade bekanntgegeben ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how offiziell appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich habe eine offizielle Genehmigung, dieses Haus abreißen zu dürfen.
„Sadie ist vor Trauer außer sich und macht einen Skandal, als sie die offizielle Ehefrau und eine weitere Geliebte, von der Clarence zwei Kinder hat, auftauchen sieht, ganz abgesehen von mehreren Mätressen, die alle behaupten, die einzigen zu sein, die ihn je geliebt haben.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fofiziell
- offiizell
- offizeill
- offiziel
- offizilel
- offizziell
- offziiell
- ofifziell
- ofiziell
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of offiziell - 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 "offiziell", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).