umfassen
[ʊmˈfasn̩]
The verdict
“umfassen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,643. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,643
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas umgreifen, umfangen, umgeben
Corpus desk
Index DE-umfassen · umfassen · German
umfassen · rank #8,643 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,643
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH umbringen
Nearest frequency peer: umbringen (-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 „umfassen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- thematisiert
thematisiert
91,361 corpus weight
- türkisch
türkisch
91,360 corpus weight
- umbringen
umbringen
91,359 corpus weight
- umfassen
umfassen
91,358 corpus weight
- Unterscheid…
Unterscheidung
91,357 corpus weight
- Unterstützer
Unterstützer
91,356 corpus weight
What this shows „umfassen“ 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 | umfassen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʊmˈfasn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „umfassen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around umfassen (IPA [ʊmˈfasn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,643 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for umfassen, with forms such as "mufassen", "ufmassen", and "umafssen". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "umfasst", "umfasste", "Umrissen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 umfassen, spelled U-M-F-A-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas umgreifen, umfangen, umgeben
- 2etwas einschliessen, beinhalten, enthalten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how umfassen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zahlreiche Gärten umfassen das Schloss.
Aus Dankbarkeit umfasste er seine Hand.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mufassen
- ufmassen
- umafssen
- umfasen
- umfasesn
- umfassenn
- umfassne
- umfaßen
- umffassen
- umfsasen
- ummfassen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of umfassen - 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 "umfassen", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).