Anschauung
[ˈanˌʃaʊ̯ʊŋ]
The verdict
“Anschauung” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,912. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,912
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Art und Weise, wie man etwas betrachtet oder interpretiert
Corpus desk
Index DE-anschauung · Anschauung · German
Anschauung · rank #30,912 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,912
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH anhaltender
Nearest frequency peer: anhaltender (-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 „Anschauung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- analytischen
analytischen
69,092 corpus weight
- Anden
Anden
69,091 corpus weight
- anhaltender
anhaltender
69,090 corpus weight
- Anschauung
Anschauung
69,089 corpus weight
- Ansporn
Ansporn
69,088 corpus weight
- anzusiedeln
anzusiedeln
69,087 corpus weight
What this shows „Anschauung“ 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 | Anschauung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈanˌʃaʊ̯ʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Anschauung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Anschauung (IPA [ˈanˌʃaʊ̯ʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,912 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Anschauung, with forms such as "ancshauung", "annschauung", and "anscahuung". 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, "Anschauungen", "anschauen", "Anschaffung", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Anschauung, spelled A-N-S-C-H-A-U-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1die Art und Weise, wie man etwas betrachtet oder interpretiert
- 2die Handlung des Anschauens
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Anschauung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Anschauung von einem Glück, welches in einem Verharren, in einem bestimmten Zustande bestände, ist an sich falsch.
„In ihren moralischen Anschauungen war sie übrigens nicht konsequent.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ancshauung
- annschauung
- anscahuung
- anscchauung
- anschaung
- anschaunug
- anschauugn
- anschauungg
- anschauunng
- anschhauung
- anschuaung
- anshcauung
- ansschauung
- asnchauung
- naschauung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Anschauung - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).