Animation
[animaˈt͡si̯oːn]
The verdict
“Animation” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,305. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,305
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aktion oder Aktivität zur Verbreitung von Lebensfreude und guter Laune, häufig in der Tourismusbranche
Corpus desk
Index DE-animation · Animation · German
Animation · rank #13,305 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,305
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Anhaltspunkte
Nearest frequency peer: Anhaltspunkte (-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 „Animation“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Albtraum
Albtraum
86,699 corpus weight
- amen
amen
86,698 corpus weight
- Anhaltspunk…
Anhaltspunkte
86,697 corpus weight
- Animation
Animation
86,696 corpus weight
- Anreise
Anreise
86,694 corpus weight
- anrichten
anrichten
86,693 corpus weight
What this shows „Animation“ 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 | Animation |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [animaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Animation“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Animation (IPA [animaˈt͡si̯oːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,305 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Animation, with forms such as "ainmation", "aniamtion", and "animaiton". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "aviation", "Animationen", "Agitation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is Animation, spelled A-N-I-M-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Aktion oder Aktivität zur Verbreitung von Lebensfreude und guter Laune, häufig in der Tourismusbranche
- 2Verfahren, das durch Erstellen und Anzeigen von Einzelbildern für den Betrachter ein bewegtes Bild erzeugt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Animation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Animationen sorgen für gute Laune bei allen Hotelgästen.
Das sogenannte Daumenkino ist eine sehr alte Form der Animation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ainmation
- aniamtion
- animaiton
- animatino
- animationn
- animatoin
- animattion
- animmation
- animtaion
- anmiation
- annimation
- naimation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Animation - 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 "Animation", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).