einsetzen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,368
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
einsetzen is aGermanverb. It means: jemanden in eine Position, Stellung, Würde, bringen, jemandem Rechte verleihen Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯nˌzɛt͡sn̩]. It ranks #3,368 in German word frequency. Often confused with ersetzen and einsetzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einsetzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nˌzɛt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einsetzen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nˌzɛt͡sn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,368 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 einsetzen, with forms such as "einestzen", "einnsetzen", and "einsetezn". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "ersetzen", "einsetzt", "Entsetzen", 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 einsetzen, spelled E-I-N-S-E-T-Z-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemanden in eine Position, Stellung, Würde, bringen, jemandem Rechte verleihen
- 2ein Mittel oder ein Werkzeug bereitstellen oder verwenden
- 3einen Teil passend zu einem Ganzen hinzufügen (zum Beispiel Pflanzen auf einem Areal eingraben; Fische in ein Gewässer, Wild in ein Revier einbringen)
- 4seinen Anfang nehmen
- 5etwas aufs Spiel setzen auf Gefahr von dessen Verlust hin
- 6sich einer Aufgabe, einem Ziel voll und ganz widmen; zugunsten einer Person handeln
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: einestzen,einnsetzen,einsetezn,einsettzen,einsetzenn,einsetzne,einsetzzen,einsezten,einssetzen,einstezen,eisnetzen,enisetzen,iensetzen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for einsetzen
Misspelling Variants of "einsetzen"
Frequency rank: #3,368 in German
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