Chemie
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,179
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Chemie is aGermannoun. It means: Naturwissenschaft, die sich mit der Zusammensetzung und den Eigenschaften der Stoffe sowie deren Veränderungen befasst Pronounced [çeˈmiː]. It ranks #3,179 in German word frequency. Often confused with crème and Chemiker.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chemie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [çeˈmiː] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Chemie is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [çeˈmiː]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,179 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Chemie, with forms such as "cchemie", "cehmie", and "cheime". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "crème", "Chemiker", "Chefin", and more, 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 Chemie, spelled C-H-E-M-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Naturwissenschaft, die sich mit der Zusammensetzung und den Eigenschaften der Stoffe sowie deren Veränderungen befasst
- 2Schul-/Studienfach, in dem [1] vermittelt wird
- 3die zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen, emotionale Feinabstimmung
- 4Stoff oder Produkt, das (vermutlich) synthetisch hergestellt wurde und deswegen als gesundheitsschädlich angesehen wird
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchemie,cehmie,cheime,chemei,chemmie,chhemie,chmeie,hcemie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Chemie"
Frequency rank: #3,179 in German
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