Eingang
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,240
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
Eingang is aGermannoun. It means: Öffnung zum Betreten eines begrenzten Bereiches, zum Beispiel eines Gebäudes Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯nˌɡaŋ]. It ranks #3,240 in German word frequency. Often confused with Einwand and einging.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eingang |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nˌɡaŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Eingang is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nˌɡaŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,240 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Eingang, with forms such as "eignang", "einagng", and "eingagn". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Einwand", "einging", "Einigung", 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 Eingang, spelled E-I-N-G-A-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Öffnung zum Betreten eines begrenzten Bereiches, zum Beispiel eines Gebäudes
- 2Öffnung eines Organs, durch die etwas hineingelangt
- 3Beginn eines Vorgangs oder einer Rede
- 4das Eintreffen einer Sendung
- 5die eingetroffene Sendung
- 6Aufnahme
- 7Buchse an einem Gerät, an die ein Kabel angeschlossen werden kann, über das Daten geschickt werden
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eignang,einagng,eingagn,eingangg,einganng,einggang,eingnag,einngang,enigang,iengang
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Eingang
Misspelling Variants of "Eingang"
Frequency rank: #3,240 in German
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