radial
[ʁaˈdi̯aːl]
The verdict
“radial” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,402. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,402
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von einem Mittelpunkt wie ein Strahl nach außen gehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-radial · radial · German
radial · rank #48,402 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,402
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Quellwasser
Nearest frequency peer: Quellwasser (-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 „radial“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Prävalenz
Prävalenz
51,603 corpus weight
- Quarks
Quarks
51,601 corpus weight
- Quellwasser
Quellwasser
51,600 corpus weight
- radial
radial
51,599 corpus weight
- Rasierkling…
Rasierklingen
51,596 corpus weight
- rationaler
rationaler
51,595 corpus weight
What this shows „radial“ 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 | radial |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʁaˈdi̯aːl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „radial“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around radial (IPA [ʁaˈdi̯aːl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,402 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "von einem Mittelpunkt wie ein Strahl nach außen gehend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for radial, with forms such as "ardial", "radail", and "raddial". 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, "rail", "Radio", "Radius", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 radial, spelled R-A-D-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1von einem Mittelpunkt wie ein Strahl nach außen gehend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how radial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die blauen Streifen verlaufen radial von der Mitte des Pullovers zu den Seiten.
Seismische Wellen, auch Erdbebenwellen genannt, werden bei einem Erdbeben durch den so genannten Herdvorgang ausgelöst und breiten sich von dort radial im Erdinneren aus.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ardial
- radail
- raddial
- radiall
- radila
- raidal
- rdaial
- rradial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of radial - 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 "radial", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).