children
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,209
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
children is anGermanunknown. It means: Plural von child Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən]. Often confused with chillen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | children |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for children is 8 letters long, classified as anunknown, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,209 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plural von child".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for children, with forms such as "cchildren", "chhildren", and "chidlren". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "chillen", 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 children, spelled C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plural von child
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchildren,chhildren,chidlren,childdren,childern,childrenn,childrne,childrren,chilldren,chilrden,chlidren,cihldren,hcildren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for children
Misspelling Variants of "children"
Frequency rank: #21,209 in German
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Nearby German words
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