Phantasie
[fantaˈziː]
The verdict
“Phantasie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,915. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,915
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vorstellungsvermögen oder Kreativität
Corpus desk
Index DE-phantasie · Phantasie · German
Phantasie · rank #10,915 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,915
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH parlamentaris…
Nearest frequency peer: parlamentarischen (-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 „Phantasie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Palästina
Palästina
89,089 corpus weight
- pan
pan
89,088 corpus weight
- parlamentar…
parlamentarischen
89,087 corpus weight
- Phantasie
Phantasie
89,086 corpus weight
- philosophis…
philosophischen
89,085 corpus weight
- Produzent
Produzent
89,083 corpus weight
What this shows „Phantasie“ 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 | Phantasie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fantaˈziː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Phantasie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Phantasie (IPA [fantaˈziː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,915 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Phantasie, with forms such as "hpantasie", "pahntasie", and "phanatsie". 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, "Phantasien", "Fantasie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Phantasie, spelled P-H-A-N-T-A-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Vorstellungsvermögen oder Kreativität
- 2vorgestellte Ereignisse und Zustände
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Phantasie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es kam noch häufiger vor, dass seine Phantasie stärker war als seine Beobachtung.“
„Es ist ein wunderlicher Vorgang, wie die Phantasie gleich einem Fieber, dessen Keime von weither getrieben werden, von unserem Leben Besitz ergreift und immer tiefer und glühender sich in ihm einnistet.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpantasie
- pahntasie
- phanatsie
- phanntasie
- phantaise
- phantasei
- phantassie
- phantsaie
- phanttasie
- phatnasie
- phhantasie
- phnatasie
- pphantasie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Phantasie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Phantasie", 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).