Drohung
[ˈdʁoːʊŋ]
The verdict
“Drohung” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,528. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,528
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Ankündigung einer unangenehmen oder gesetzwidrigen Maßnahme, mit dem Ziel der Einschüchterung
Corpus desk
Index DE-drohung · Drohung · German
Drohung · rank #9,528 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,528
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dokumenten
Nearest frequency peer: Dokumenten (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Drohung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Differenz
Differenz
90,476 corpus weight
- doctor
doctor
90,475 corpus weight
- Dokumenten
Dokumenten
90,474 corpus weight
- Drohung
Drohung
90,473 corpus weight
- Edith
Edith
90,472 corpus weight
- englischer
englischer
90,470 corpus weight
What this shows „Drohung“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Drohung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdʁoːʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Drohung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Drohung (IPA [ˈdʁoːʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,528 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "die Ankündigung einer unangenehmen oder gesetzwidrigen Maßnahme, mit dem Ziel der Einschüchterung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Drohung, with forms such as "ddrohung", "dorhung", and "drhoung". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Drohungen", "drohen", "Drohne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Drohung, spelled D-R-O-H-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1die Ankündigung einer unangenehmen oder gesetzwidrigen Maßnahme, mit dem Ziel der Einschüchterung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Drohung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Drohung mit einem Zivilprozess ließ ihn seine Forderung zurücknehmen.
„Es war nicht der einzige Transatlantikflug in die USA, gegen den am Montag anonyme Drohungen ausgesprochen wurden.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddrohung
- dorhung
- drhoung
- drohhung
- drohnug
- drohugn
- drohungg
- drohunng
- drouhng
- drrohung
- rdohung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Drohung - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Drohung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).