Ebene
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,875
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Ebene is aGermannoun. It means: ungekrümmte, planare Fläche Pronounced [ˈeːbənə]. It ranks #1,875 in German word frequency. Often confused with een and eine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ebene |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈeːbənə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ebene is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeːbənə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,875 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Ebene, with forms such as "beene", "ebbene", and "ebeen". 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, "een", "eine", "Ehen", 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 Ebene, spelled E-B-E-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ungekrümmte, planare Fläche
- 2lang ausgestreckte, flache, hügelfreie Landschaft unabhängig von ihrer Höhe über dem Meer
- 3Schicht in einem mehrschichtigen Konstrukt, zum Beispiel in einer politischen oder wirtschaftlichen Organisation
- 4die Euklidische Ebene, ein zweidimensionaler Vektorraum
- 5Geschoss, Etage in einem Gebäude
- 6planare Molekularstruktur
- 7aus einer transparenten Folie bestehende oder mit einer solchen Folie vergleichbare Einheit, in der Zeichnungsobjekte untereinander in Beziehung stehen
- 8logische Gliederung von raumbezogenen Objekten in einem Geoinformationssystem
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: beene,ebbene,ebeen,ebenne,ebnee,eebne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Ebene
Misspelling Variants of "Ebene"
Frequency rank: #1,875 in German
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Nearby German words
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