denselben
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,781
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
denselben is anGermanunknown. It means: Akkusativ Singular des Demonstrativpronomens derselbe Pronounced [deːnˈzɛlbn̩]. It ranks #6,781 in German word frequency. Often confused with derselbe and derselben.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | denselben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [deːnˈzɛlbn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for denselben is 9 letters long, classified as anunknown, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːnˈzɛlbn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,781 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 generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for denselben, with forms such as "ddenselben", "deneslben", and "dennselben". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "derselbe", "derselben", "dieselben", 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 denselben, spelled D-E-N-S-E-L-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Akkusativ Singular des Demonstrativpronomens derselbe
- 2Dativ Plural des Demonstrativpronomens derselbe
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddenselben,deneslben,dennselben,denseblen,denselbben,denselbenn,denselbne,denselebn,densellben,densleben,densselben,desnelben,dneselben,ednselben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for denselben
Misspelling Variants of "denselben"
Frequency rank: #6,781 in German
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Nearby German words
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