Commonly misspelled words in German Commonly misspelled words in German Misspellings in German are a subcategory of orthographical errors (German: "Rechtschreibfehler"), counter the rules of German orthography. Although there is some variance following the current 'optional' status of the German spelling reform of 1996. Misspelling in German is less common than in English since most words are spelled as they are pronounced. Exceptions however occur, as for the (in modern German) identical "ä" and "e" both representing the IPA [ε] sound. Confusion can also occur with homonyms as verb prefixes: "wiederspiegeln" (incorrect) vs. "widerspiegeln" (correct). Misspellings of German words, outside Germany, also occur - for
Comanche language on long vowel. Also, the "initial syllable never weakens to the point of voicelessness" Alternating stress occurs when there are words with three four, five and six syllables. In addition alternating stress is given "when nouns of compound are coequal, a root or stem has one-syllable suffix." Also, prefixes or not stem-changes do not receive an indicial stress because the alternating stress "begins on the second syllable as in the following word of six syllables, following the pattern of five-syllable words." An example is [wu.hká.ʔa.mí.ʔanu] which means 'went to cut down'. An examples of alternating stress in a four, five