Pflanze
[ˈp͡flant͡sə]
The verdict
“Pflanze” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,520
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eukaryotischer Organismus, der meist in der Lage ist, Photosynthese zu betreiben
Corpus desk
Index DE-pflanze · Pflanze · German
Pflanze · rank #5,520 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,520
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH passende
Nearest frequency peer: passende (-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 „Pflanze“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Norm
Norm
94,484 corpus weight
- normaler
normaler
94,483 corpus weight
- passende
passende
94,482 corpus weight
- Pflanze
Pflanze
94,481 corpus weight
- problemlos
problemlos
94,480 corpus weight
- public
public
94,479 corpus weight
What this shows „Pflanze“ 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 | Pflanze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈp͡flant͡sə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Pflanze“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Pflanze (IPA [ˈp͡flant͡sə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,520 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pflanze, with forms such as "fplanze", "pfalnze", and "pfflanze". 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, "plane", "Plätze", "plante", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Pflanze, spelled P-F-L-A-N-Z-E.
Definition
- 1eukaryotischer Organismus, der meist in der Lage ist, Photosynthese zu betreiben
- 2eigenartiger, ungeratener Mensch
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pflanze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nach heutiger Auffassung sind Pilze keine Pflanzen.
„Der Boden ist ein wichtiger Teil der Biosphäre an Land, weil die meisten Pflanzen ihn für ihr Wachstum brauchen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fplanze
- pfalnze
- pfflanze
- pflanez
- pflannze
- pflanzze
- pflazne
- pfllanze
- pflnaze
- plfanze
- ppflanze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pflanze - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Pflanze", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).