viral
[viˈʁaːl]
The verdict
“viral” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,103
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von Viren verursacht
Corpus desk
Index DE-viral · viral · German
viral · rank #36,103 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,103
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH virtueller
Nearest frequency peer: virtueller (+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 „viral“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verzieht
verzieht
63,901 corpus weight
- Verzinsung
Verzinsung
63,900 corpus weight
- viral
viral
63,898 corpus weight
- virtueller
virtueller
63,897 corpus weight
- Visitenkart…
Visitenkarten
63,896 corpus weight
- Vogels
Vogels
63,895 corpus weight
What this shows „viral“ 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 | viral |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [viˈʁaːl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „viral“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around viral (IPA [viˈʁaːl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,103 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for viral, with forms such as "ivral", "viarl", and "virall". 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, "vita", "Visa", "viva", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is viral, spelled V-I-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1von Viren verursacht
- 2das Virus betreffend
- 3besonders durch Kontakte in den Social Media schnell weite Verbreitung im Internet findend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how viral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eine virale Infektion kann man mit Antibiotika behandeln, aber es hilft nichts.
Im Serum gleich dreier tropischer Flughundarten entdeckten die Forscher dabei Ebola-spezifische Antikörper sowie Fragmente viralen Genoms in Leber und Milz der Tiere.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivral
- viarl
- virall
- virla
- virral
- vrial
- vviral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of viral - 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
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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).