Aufforderung
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,864
in German word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Aufforderung is aGermannoun. It means: Dringende Bitte, etwas zu tun Pronounced [ˈaʊ̯fˌfɔʁdəʁʊŋ]. It ranks #7,864 in German word frequency. Often confused with Aufforderungen and auffordern.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aufforderung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fˌfɔʁdəʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Aufforderung is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaʊ̯fˌfɔʁdəʁʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,864 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for Aufforderung, with forms such as "afuforderung", "auffodrerung", and "auffordderung". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Aufforderungen", "auffordern", "Anforderung", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Aufforderung, spelled A-U-F-F-O-R-D-E-R-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dringende Bitte, etwas zu tun
- 2Einladung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afuforderung,auffodrerung,auffordderung,auffordernug,aufforderrung,aufforderugn,aufforderungg,aufforderunng,auffordeurng,auffordreung,aufforedrung,aufforrderung,auffroderung,aufofrderung,auforderung,uafforderung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Aufforderung
Misspelling Variants of "Aufforderung"
Frequency rank: #7,864 in German
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