Transfer
[tʁansˈfeːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Transfer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,295. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,295
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Weitergabe von Gegenständen oder Informationen/Wissen
Corpus desk
Index DE-transfer · Transfer · German
Transfer · rank #8,295 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,295
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH track
Nearest frequency peer: track (-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 „Transfer“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- teilzunehmen
teilzunehmen
91,708 corpus weight
- track
track
91,707 corpus weight
- Transfer
Transfer
91,706 corpus weight
- trost
trost
91,705 corpus weight
- umfassend
umfassend
91,704 corpus weight
- Ungern
Ungern
91,703 corpus weight
What this shows „Transfer“ 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 | Transfer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁansˈfeːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Transfer“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Transfer (IPA [tʁansˈfeːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,295 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Transfer, with forms such as "rtansfer", "tarnsfer", and "tranfser". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "transfers", "Transe", "Transen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Transfer, spelled T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Weitergabe von Gegenständen oder Informationen/Wissen
- 2Zahlung eines Geldbetrags in Fremdwährung ins Ausland
- 3Verkauf eines Berufssportlers eines Vereins an einen anderen
- 4Transport von Reisenden vom Ankunftsort zur Unterkunft
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Transfer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wichtig ist daher Wissen und der sorgfältige Transfer des Wissens auf die örtlichen Gegebenheiten.
„Ich begreife ihn als den Teilbereich des Transfers gesellschaftlich mehr oder weniger relevanten Wissens.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtansfer
- tarnsfer
- tranfser
- trannsfer
- transefr
- transferr
- transffer
- transfre
- transsfer
- trasnfer
- trnasfer
- trransfer
- ttransfer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Transfer - 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 "Transfer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).