zivil
[t͡siˈviːl]
The verdict
“zivil” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,887
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft, keiner militärischen Organisation angehörig
Corpus desk
Index DE-zivil · zivil · German
zivil · rank #16,887 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,887
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Ziege
Nearest frequency peer: Ziege (-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 „zivil“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Zeigefinger
Zeigefinger
83,117 corpus weight
- zerbrechen
zerbrechen
83,116 corpus weight
- Ziege
Ziege
83,115 corpus weight
- zivil
zivil
83,114 corpus weight
- Zuschuss
Zuschuss
83,113 corpus weight
- Zähler
Zähler
83,112 corpus weight
What this shows „zivil“ 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 | zivil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [t͡siˈviːl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „zivil“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around zivil (IPA [t͡siˈviːl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,887 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for zivil, with forms such as "izvil", "ziivl", and "zivill". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "zivile", "zivilen", "ziviler", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 zivil, spelled Z-I-V-I-L.
Definition
- 1der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft, keiner militärischen Organisation angehörig
- 2den angebotenen Leistungen oder Waren preislich angemessen
- 3öffentlich, die Gemeinschaft der Bürger betreffend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zivil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Zivile Verteidigung hat in einem Spannungs- oder Verteidigungsfall die Aufrechterhaltung der staatlichen Ordnung zur Aufgabe.
„Denn wer zivile Tugenden wie persönliche Verantwortung und Zivilcourage für Extremleistungen hält, die man eigentlich nur von Hochleistungsdemokraten erwarten könnte, so merkte der Schriftsteller Peter Schneider unlängst an, der gibt zu erkennen, daß er an dieser Latte nicht gemessen werden möchte.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- izvil
- ziivl
- zivill
- zivli
- zivvil
- zviil
- zzivil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zivil - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "zivil", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).