Commonly misspelled words in German

Misspellings in German are a subcategory of orthographical errors (German: Rechtschreibfehler), counter the rules of German orthography. Misspelling in German is less common than in English since most words are spelled as they are pronounced.^[1] Exceptions however occur, as for the (in modern German) identical "ä" and "e" both representing the IPA [ε] sound.^[2]

References

^ Commonsense Grammar and Style: The Textbook - Phillip S. Sparks - 2004 - Page 65 "In many other languages, German and Spanish for example, almost all words are easy to spell because they are written "
^ Learning to Spell: Research, Theory, and Practice Across Languages - Charles A. Perfetti, Laurence Rieben, Michel Fayol - 1997 Page 86 "Why vowel spelling proved difficult for some of the German words is easy to understand from the misspellings listed in Table 5.1. In the case of Bär (only 66% correct), 25 children used e for /ε/. The letter e actually is the more common spelling ..."

[1] Commonsense Grammar and Style: The Textbook - Phillip S. Sparks - 2004 - Page 65 "In many other languages, German and Spanish for example, almost all words are easy to spell because they are written "

[2] Learning to Spell: Research, Theory, and Practice Across Languages - Charles A. Perfetti, Laurence Rieben, Michel Fayol - 1997 Page 86 "Why vowel spelling proved difficult for some of the German words is easy to understand from the misspellings listed in Table 5.1. In the case of Bär (only 66% correct), 25 children used e for /ε/. The letter e actually is the more common spelling ..."

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