diesen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#179
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
diesen is anGermanunknown. It means: Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum des Demonstrativpronomens dies Pronounced [ˈdiːzn̩]. It ranks #179 in German word frequency. Often confused with Dosen and Düsen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diesen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈdiːzn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for diesen is 6 letters long, classified as anunknown, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdiːzn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #179 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for diesen, with forms such as "ddiesen", "deisen", and "dieesn". 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, "Dosen", "Düsen", "dieser", 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 diesen, spelled D-I-E-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum des Demonstrativpronomens dies
- 2Dativ Plural des Demonstrativpronomens dies
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddiesen,deisen,dieesn,diesenn,diesne,diessen,diseen,idesen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diesen
Misspelling Variants of "diesen"
Frequency rank: #179 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our German index: