Dehnung
[ˈdeːnʊŋ]
The verdict
“Dehnung” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #43,098. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,098
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Dehnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-dehnung · Dehnung · German
Dehnung · rank #43,098 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,098
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH defence
Nearest frequency peer: defence (-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 „Dehnung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- dazugekommen
dazugekommen
56,906 corpus weight
- dazukommen
dazukommen
56,905 corpus weight
- defence
defence
56,904 corpus weight
- Dehnung
Dehnung
56,903 corpus weight
- denkbare
denkbare
56,902 corpus weight
- diaries
diaries
56,901 corpus weight
What this shows „Dehnung“ 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 | Dehnung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdeːnʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Dehnung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Dehnung (IPA [ˈdeːnʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,098 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dehnung, with forms such as "ddehnung", "dehhnung", and "dehnnug". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Deutung", "Drehung", "dehnen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Dehnung, spelled D-E-H-N-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1das Dehnen
- 2das Dehnen
- 3das Dehnen
- 4das Strecken des Körpers und der Gliedmaßen, um Elastizität zu erreichen
- 5zeitliche Verlängerung
- 6zeitliche Verlängerung
- 7zeitliche Verlängerung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dehnung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durch Anlegen starker elektrischer Felder wird die Mehrzahl der Domänen in Richtung des Feldes orientiert – man spricht von „Polung“ –, die Keramik wird piezoelektrisch. Gleichzeitig wird durch Ausrichten der gestreckten Zellen und Kristallite in Feldrichtung eine starke Dehnung erzeugt, die in den Piezoaktoren genutzt wird.
42 wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen, sowohl auf chemischem als auch auf physikalisch-technologischem Gebiet, liegen bereits von dem Aachener Institut vor, wobei u. a. die Veränderung der Festigkeit und Dehnung von Wolle nach radioaktiver Bestrahlung und Kobaltstrahlung in Gegenwart von Luftsauerstoff untersucht wurde.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddehnung
- dehhnung
- dehnnug
- dehnnung
- dehnugn
- dehnungg
- dehnunng
- dehunng
- denhung
- dhenung
- edhnung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dehnung - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).