philosophisch
[filoˈzoːfɪʃ]
The verdict
“philosophisch” has 21 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,023. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,023
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Philosophie betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-philosophisch · philosophisch · German
philosophisch · rank #20,023 · 21 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,023
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Perücke
Nearest frequency peer: Perücke (-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 „philosophisch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Parfüm
Parfüm
79,981 corpus weight
- Passiven
Passiven
79,980 corpus weight
- Perücke
Perücke
79,979 corpus weight
- philosophis…
philosophisch
79,978 corpus weight
- Pier
Pier
79,977 corpus weight
- plaudern
plaudern
79,976 corpus weight
What this shows „philosophisch“ 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 | philosophisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [filoˈzoːfɪʃ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #20,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „philosophisch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around philosophisch (IPA [filoˈzoːfɪʃ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,023 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for philosophisch, with forms such as "hpilosophisch", "phhilosophisch", and "phillosophisch". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "philosophische", "philosophischen", "philosophischer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is philosophisch, spelled P-H-I-L-O-S-O-P-H-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1die Philosophie betreffend
- 2auf Reflexionen beruhend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how philosophisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Neulich hab' ich jemanden von der philosophischen Fakultät gesucht, und ein Philologe hat mir den Weg gewiesen.
„Sie sind das Herz der «Grant Study»: Eine der aufwendigsten Langzeitstudien der Geschichte, die sich mit einem der philosophischsten Geheimnisse der Menschheit befasst: dem glücklichen Leben.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpilosophisch
- phhilosophisch
- phillosophisch
- philoosphisch
- philosohpisch
- philosophhisch
- philosophicsh
- philosophiscch
- philosophischh
- philosophishc
- philosophissch
- philosophsich
- philosopihsch
- philosopphisch
- philospohisch
- philossophisch
- philsoophisch
- phiolsophisch
- phliosophisch
- pihlosophisch
- pphilosophisch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of philosophisch - 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
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Same letter count
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).