telefonisch
[teləˈfoːnɪʃ]
The verdict
“telefonisch” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,758
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Telefon betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-telefonisch · telefonisch · German
telefonisch · rank #10,758 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,758
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Teilung
Nearest frequency peer: Teilung (-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 „telefonisch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- süddeutschen
süddeutschen
89,246 corpus weight
- Tattoo
Tattoo
89,245 corpus weight
- Teilung
Teilung
89,244 corpus weight
- telefonisch
telefonisch
89,243 corpus weight
- trink
trink
89,242 corpus weight
- umgestellt
umgestellt
89,241 corpus weight
What this shows „telefonisch“ 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 | telefonisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [teləˈfoːnɪʃ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #10,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „telefonisch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around telefonisch (IPA [teləˈfoːnɪʃ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,758 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for telefonisch, with forms such as "etlefonisch", "teelfonisch", and "teleffonisch". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "telefonische", "Telefonbuch", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 telefonisch, spelled T-E-L-E-F-O-N-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1das Telefon betreffend
- 2mit Hilfe des Telefons, über das Telefon
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how telefonisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Speicherung telefonischer Daten
„Die Mutter einer Schizophrenen benachrichtigte den behandelnden Psychiater telefonisch, dass der Zustand ihrer Tochter sich wieder verschlechterte.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etlefonisch
- teelfonisch
- teleffonisch
- telefnoisch
- telefoinsch
- telefonicsh
- telefoniscch
- telefonischh
- telefonishc
- telefonissch
- telefonnisch
- telefonsich
- teleofnisch
- telfeonisch
- tellefonisch
- tleefonisch
- ttelefonisch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of telefonisch - 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 "telefonisch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).