planen
[ˈplaːnən]
The verdict
“planen” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #3,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,612
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zukünftige Handlungen ausarbeiten; sich Gedanken darüber machen, wie eine künftige Sache gut durchgeführt werden kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-planen · planen · German
planen · rank #3,612 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,612
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH peinlich
Nearest frequency peer: peinlich (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “planen”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- nee
nee
96,392 corpus weight
- Ohr
Ohr
96,391 corpus weight
- peinlich
peinlich
96,390 corpus weight
- planen
planen
96,389 corpus weight
- politischer
politischer
96,388 corpus weight
- Potsdam
Potsdam
96,387 corpus weight
What this shows “planen” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the 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 | planen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈplaːnən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “planen” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around planen (IPA [ˈplaːnən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,612 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for planen, with forms such as "lpanen", "palnen", and "plaenn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plant", "plans", "plate", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is planen, spelled P-L-A-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1zukünftige Handlungen ausarbeiten; sich Gedanken darüber machen, wie eine künftige Sache gut durchgeführt werden kann
- 2etwas vorhaben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how planen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Flucht war sorgfältig geplant.
Als der Architekt Walter Gropius vor 50 Jahren die erste Großsiedlung Berlins plante, war das auch ein Symbol des modernen Lebens. Heute haben Großsiedlungen wie die "Gropiusstadt" ein Image-Problem.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpanen
- palnen
- plaenn
- planenn
- planne
- plannen
- pllanen
- plnaen
- pplanen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of planen - 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 "planen", 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).