Deletion
[deleˈt͡si̯oːn]
The verdict
“Deletion” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutation, bei der es zur Entfernung einer Nukleotidsequenz (ein bis mehreren Nukleotidpaare) oder eines Teils beziehungsweise des gesamten Chromosoms kommt
Corpus desk
Index DE-deletion · Deletion · German
Deletion · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Deletion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [deleˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Deletion“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Deletion is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [deleˈt͡si̯oːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Deletion, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Deletion, spelled D-E-L-E-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Mutation, bei der es zur Entfernung einer Nukleotidsequenz (ein bis mehreren Nukleotidpaare) oder eines Teils beziehungsweise des gesamten Chromosoms kommt
- 2Auslassung sprachlicher Einheiten im Satz; Probe zur Unterscheidung notwendiger von nicht notwendigen Teilen eines Satzes oder Satzgliedes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Deletion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eine Deletion ist immer ein Verlust von genetischem Material.
Mit Hilfe von Deletionen kann man herausfinden, welche Bestandteile sprachlicher Einheiten notwendig und welche nur fakultativ sind. Deletionen zeigen z.B. dass Attribute keine notwendigen Bestandteile von Sätzen bzw. Satzgliedern sind.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.