überfallen
[ˌyːbɐˈfalən]
The verdict
“überfallen” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,706. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,706
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - überraschend angreifen
Corpus desk
Index DE-uberfallen · überfallen · German
überfallen · rank #7,706 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,706
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH abgebaut
Nearest frequency peer: abgebaut (+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 „überfallen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- zueinander
zueinander
92,299 corpus weight
- zwingt
zwingt
92,298 corpus weight
- Ängste
Ängste
92,297 corpus weight
- überfallen
überfallen
92,295 corpus weight
- abgebaut
abgebaut
92,294 corpus weight
- absurd
absurd
92,292 corpus weight
What this shows „überfallen“ 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 | überfallen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌyːbɐˈfalən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „überfallen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around überfallen (IPA [ˌyːbɐˈfalən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,706 among 443 “Ü” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for überfallen, with forms such as "büerfallen", "übberfallen", and "übefrallen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Überfalls", "überfällig", "überfielen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 überfallen, spelled Ü-B-E-R-F-A-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1überraschend angreifen
- 2einen Raub durchführen
- 3unvorbereitet mit etwas konfrontieren
- 4von Gefühlen ergriffen werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how überfallen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deutschland überfiel Polen im zweiten Weltkrieg.
„[…] dann, am Morgen des 24. Februar 2022, überfielen russische Truppen die Ukraine.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- büerfallen
- übberfallen
- übefrallen
- überafllen
- überfaleln
- überfalen
- überfallenn
- überfallne
- überffallen
- überflalen
- überrfallen
- übrefallen
- üebrfallen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of überfallen - 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 "überfallen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).