triff
[tʁɪf]
The verdict
“triff” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,538. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,538
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs treffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-triff · triff · German
triff · rank #22,538 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,538
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Transporte
Nearest frequency peer: Transporte (-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 „triff“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Tester
Tester
77,466 corpus weight
- Thermometer
Thermometer
77,465 corpus weight
- Transporte
Transporte
77,464 corpus weight
- triff
triff
77,463 corpus weight
- Töpfe
Töpfe
77,462 corpus weight
- Ullrich
Ullrich
77,461 corpus weight
What this shows „triff“ 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 | triff |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [tʁɪf] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „triff“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around triff (IPA [tʁɪf]), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,538 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs treffen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for triff, with forms such as "rtiff", "tirff", and "trfif". 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, "Trio", "Trip", "tritt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is triff, spelled T-R-I-F-F.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs treffen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtiff
- tirff
- trfif
- trif
- trriff
- ttriff
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of triff - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "triff", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).