Diffusion
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,065
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Diffusion is aGermannoun. It means: ohne äußere Einwirkung eintretende gegenseitige Durchdringung von Gasen, Flüssigkeiten oder Lösungen durch Eigenbewegung der Moleküle aufgrund von Konzentrations- oder Partialdruckunterschieden Pronounced [dɪfuˈzi̯oːn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Diffusion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɪfuˈzi̯oːn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Diffusion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dɪfuˈzi̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,065 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Diffusion, with forms such as "ddiffusion", "dfifusion", and "diffsuion". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Diffusion, spelled D-I-F-F-U-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ohne äußere Einwirkung eintretende gegenseitige Durchdringung von Gasen, Flüssigkeiten oder Lösungen durch Eigenbewegung der Moleküle aufgrund von Konzentrations- oder Partialdruckunterschieden
- 2Prozess bei der Herstellung von Halbleitern
- 3Arbeitsschritt bei der Bildverarbeitung
- 4Einführung und Verbreitung von Innovationen in einem sozialen System
- 5Streuung von Licht oder Strahlung
- 6Verbreitung von Kulturelementen durch Übernahme und Wanderung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddiffusion,dfifusion,diffsuion,diffuison,diffusino,diffusionn,diffusoin,diffussion,difufsion,difusion,idffusion
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Misspelling Variants of "Diffusion"
Frequency rank: #48,065 in German
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