Aberration

/[apˌʔɛʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]/ noun

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10 characters

Language

German

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Aberration is aGermannoun. It means: scheinbare Ortsveränderung eines Gestirns aufgrund der Erdbewegung und der Endlichkeit der Lichtgeschwindigkeit Pronounced [apˌʔɛʁaˈt͡si̯oːn].

Key facts for Aberration
PropertyValue
HeadwordAberration
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[apˌʔɛʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Aberration is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Aberration is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [apˌʔɛʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Aberration in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Aberration, spelled A-B-E-R-R-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    scheinbare Ortsveränderung eines Gestirns aufgrund der Erdbewegung und der Endlichkeit der Lichtgeschwindigkeit
  2. 2
    jährliche Aberration: aufgrund des Erdumlaufs um die Sonne
  3. 3
    tägliche Aberration: aufgrund der Erdrotation
  4. 4
    Abbildungsfehler von Linsen
  5. 5
    chromatische Aberration: unterschiedlich starke Brechung von Strahlen unterschiedlicher Wellenlänge
  6. 6
    sphärische Aberration: unterschiedlich starke Brechung von Randstrahlen gegenüber achsennahen Strahlen
  7. 7
    Abweichung von den Artmerkmalen
  8. 8
    eine leichte psychische Störung
  9. 9
    anomale Lage oder Entwicklung eines Organs oder Gewebes

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How do you spell "Aberration"?
"Aberration" is spelled A-B-E-R-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [apˌʔɛʁaˈt͡si̯oːn].
What does "Aberration" mean?
As a noun, "Aberration" means: scheinbare Ortsveränderung eines Gestirns aufgrund der Erdbewegung und der Endlichkeit der Lichtgeschwindigkeit
How do you pronounce "Aberration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Aberration" is [apˌʔɛʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Aberration" come from?
"Aberration" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.