Dimension
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,030
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Dimension is aGermannoun. It means: Ausmaß einer Sache Pronounced [ˌdimɛnˈzi̯oːn]. It ranks #7,030 in German word frequency. Often confused with Dimensionen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dimension |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌdimɛnˈzi̯oːn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Dimension is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌdimɛnˈzi̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,030 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Dimension, with forms such as "ddimension", "diemnsion", and "dimenison". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Dimensionen", 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 Dimension, spelled D-I-M-E-N-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ausmaß einer Sache
- 2körperliche Größe eines Gegenstandes in seinem ihn aufspannenden Raum
- 3Freiheitsgrad in einem, beziehungsweise die Zahl der Freiheitsgrade eines physikalischen Raumes
- 4Einheit für eine Größe in einem Maßsystem
- 5eine einen Raum wesentlich kennzeichnende Größe, dieser Raum muss nicht der gewöhnliche der körperlichen Gegenstände sein, sondern kann auch etwas Abstraktes begrifflich fassen, sehr oft ist damit die Anzahl der notwendigen Koordinaten gemeint, mit denen erst man einen „Punkt“ aus diesem Raum eindeutig von allen anderen darin unterschieden hat
- 6Abmessung, Ausdehnungsrichtung oder auch Merkmalsbereich, Eigenschaftsraum, als statistischer Zusammenhang zwischen den Merkmalen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddimension,diemnsion,dimenison,dimennsion,dimensino,dimensionn,dimensoin,dimenssion,dimesnion,dimmension,dimnesion,dmiension,idmension
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Dimension
Misspelling Variants of "Dimension"
Frequency rank: #7,030 in German
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