Phishing
[ˈfɪʃɪŋ]
The verdict
“Phishing” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,207
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Form des Trickbetruges im Internet mit Methoden des Social Engineerings, Oberbegriff für illegale Versuche, weitgestreut Anwendern Zugangsdaten (Loginnamen plus Passwörter) für sicherheitsrelevante...
Corpus desk
Index DE-phishing · Phishing · German
Phishing · rank #32,207 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,207
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pharmazeutisc…
Nearest frequency peer: pharmazeutische (-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 „Phishing“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Pfälzische
Pfälzische
67,796 corpus weight
- pharmazeuti…
pharmazeutische
67,795 corpus weight
- Phishing
Phishing
67,794 corpus weight
- Phosphor
Phosphor
67,793 corpus weight
- Pike
Pike
67,792 corpus weight
- Plastiktüte
Plastiktüte
67,791 corpus weight
What this shows „Phishing“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Phishing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɪʃɪŋ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Phishing“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Phishing (IPA [ˈfɪʃɪŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,207 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Form des Trickbetruges im Internet mit Methoden des Social Engineerings, Oberbegriff für illegale Versuche, weitgestreut Anwendern Zugangsdaten (Loginnamen plus Passwörter) für sicherheitsrelevante...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Phishing, with forms such as "hpishing", "phhishing", and "phihsing". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Phishing, spelled P-H-I-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Form des Trickbetruges im Internet mit Methoden des Social Engineerings, Oberbegriff für illegale Versuche, weitgestreut Anwendern Zugangsdaten (Loginnamen plus Passwörter) für sicherheitsrelevante Bereiche (unter anderem auch Zugangsdaten zu Bankkontodaten) zu entlocken
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpishing
- phhishing
- phihsing
- phishhing
- phishign
- phishingg
- phishinng
- phishnig
- phisihng
- phisshing
- phsihing
- pihshing
- pphishing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Phishing - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).