review
[ʁiˈvjuː]
The verdict
“review” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,844. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,844
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs reviewen
Corpus desk
Index DE-review · review · German
review · rank #6,844 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,844
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH reste
Nearest frequency peer: reste (-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 „review“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Religionen
Religionen
93,160 corpus weight
- Report
Report
93,159 corpus weight
- reste
reste
93,158 corpus weight
- review
review
93,157 corpus weight
- Rhythmus
Rhythmus
93,156 corpus weight
- roter
roter
93,155 corpus weight
What this shows „review“ 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 | review |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁiˈvjuː] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „review“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around review (IPA [ʁiˈvjuː]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,844 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs reviewen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for review, with forms such as "erview", "reivew", and "reveiw". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "revue", "reviews", "Regie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 review, spelled R-E-V-I-E-W.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs reviewen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erview
- reivew
- reveiw
- revieww
- reviwe
- revview
- rreview
- rveiew
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of review - 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 "review", 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).