Phrase
[ˈfʁaːzə]
The verdict
“Phrase” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,729. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,729
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - syntaktisch zusammengehörige Wortgruppe (Konstituente)
Corpus desk
Index DE-phrase · Phrase · German
Phrase · rank #21,729 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,729
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pic
Nearest frequency peer: pic (+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 „Phrase“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- parole
parole
78,275 corpus weight
- PDS
PDS
78,274 corpus weight
- Phrase
Phrase
78,272 corpus weight
- pic
pic
78,271 corpus weight
- Pilzen
Pilzen
78,270 corpus weight
- politischem
politischem
78,269 corpus weight
What this shows „Phrase“ 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 | Phrase |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfʁaːzə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Phrase“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Phrase (IPA [ˈfʁaːzə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,729 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Phrase, with forms such as "hprase", "pharse", and "phhrase". 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, "Prise", "please", "Präses", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Phrase, spelled P-H-R-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1syntaktisch zusammengehörige Wortgruppe (Konstituente)
- 2Sinn- und Gliederungseinheit in der musikalischen Kompositionslehre
- 3leere Redensart, Ausspruch ohne konkreten Inhalt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Phrase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Satz besteht meist aus mehreren Phrasen. Am Beispiel des Beispielsatzes: „Ein Satz“: Nominalphrase; „besteht“: Verbalphrase; „aus mehreren Phrasen“: Präpositionalphrase.
„Aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert sind in deutscher Sprache nicht wenige Grammatiken, Wörterbücher, Sprachbeschreibungen und Sprachführer zum (geschäftlichen) Umgang mit Juden überliefert, in denen westjiddische Ausdrücke und Phrasen in lateinischer Umschrift erscheinen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hprase
- pharse
- phhrase
- phraes
- phrasse
- phrrase
- phrsae
- pphrase
- prhase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Phrase - 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 "Phrase", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).