river
[ˈɹɪvə]
The verdict
“river” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,616. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,616
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fluss
Corpus desk
Index DE-river · river · German
river · rank #9,616 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,616
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rendite
Nearest frequency peer: Rendite (-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 „river“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Reiz
Reiz
90,388 corpus weight
- Renate
Renate
90,387 corpus weight
- Rendite
Rendite
90,386 corpus weight
- river
river
90,385 corpus weight
- rotes
rotes
90,384 corpus weight
- Räumlichkei…
Räumlichkeiten
90,382 corpus weight
What this shows „river“ 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 | river |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɹɪvə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „river“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around river (IPA [ˈɹɪvə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,616 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for river, with forms such as "irver", "rievr", and "riverr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rüber", "Römer", "roter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 river, spelled R-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fluss
- 2Strom
- 3Fluss, Strom
- 4Gießbach
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irver
- rievr
- riverr
- rivre
- rivver
- rriver
- rvier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of river - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "river", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).