einholen
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,802
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
einholen is aGermanverb. It means: das Versäumte oder Verlorene wieder aufholen Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯nˌhoːlən]. Often confused with erholen and Einhorn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einholen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nˌhoːlən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einholen is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nˌhoːlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,802 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 einholen, with forms such as "eihnolen", "einhholen", and "einhloen". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "erholen", "Einhorn", "einlösen", 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 einholen, spelled E-I-N-H-O-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Versäumte oder Verlorene wieder aufholen
- 2erreichen und fangen; auch für Personen und Gruppen
- 3einem Ankommenden feierlich entgegengehen, um sie zu begleiten
- 4für den täglichen Bedarf einkaufen gehen
- 5etwas einziehen, eine Flagge herunterholen oder ein Netz heraufholen
- 6sich einen Rat von jemandem holen; jemandes Meinung suchen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eihnolen,einhholen,einhloen,einhoeln,einholenn,einhollen,einholne,einnholen,einohlen,eniholen,ienholen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "einholen"
Frequency rank: #13,802 in German
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Nearby German words
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