description
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,526
in German word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
description is aGermannoun. It means: Beschreibung Pronounced […]. Often confused with of and ii.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | description |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #33,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for description is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,526 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Beschreibung".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for description, with forms such as "ddescription", "decsription", and "desccription". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "ii", "TO", 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 description, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Beschreibung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddescription,decsription,desccription,descirption,descripiton,descripption,descriptino,descriptionn,descriptoin,descripttion,descritpion,descrpition,descrription,desrciption,desscription,dsecription,edscription
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for description
Misspelling Variants of "description"
Frequency rank: #33,526 in German
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Nearby German words
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