raff
[ʁaf]
The verdict
“raff” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,412) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,412
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs raffen
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 | raff |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁaf] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “raff” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for raff is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rf", "Rat", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ʁaf]. Frequency #41,412 among 42,116 “R” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs raffen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for raff, with forms such as "arff", "rfaf", and "rraff". 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, "Rf", "Rat", "Ruf", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is raff, spelled R-A-F-F.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs raffen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arff,rfaf,rraff
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raff - 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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Using “raff”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-A-F-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʁaf] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Rf” - see the side-by-side comparison. raff vs Rf
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Words at a similar German frequency
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.