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
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs raffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-raff · raff · German
raff · rank #41,412 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,412
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH rausgeflogen
Nearest frequency peer: rausgeflogen (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „raff“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- published
published
58,592 corpus weight
- Puppenspiel…
Puppenspieler
58,591 corpus weight
- raff
raff
58,589 corpus weight
- rausgeflogen
rausgeflogen
58,588 corpus weight
- recherchier…
recherchierte
58,587 corpus weight
- Recke
Recke
58,586 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „raff“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „raff“
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 2,984 “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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).