eintreten
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,459
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
eintreten is aGermanverb. It means: eintreten in …; Hilfsverb „sein:“ einen Raum betreten Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯nˌtʁeːtn̩]. It ranks #7,459 in German word frequency. Often confused with einzutreten and einreden.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eintreten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nˌtʁeːtn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for eintreten is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nˌtʁeːtn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,459 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 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for eintreten, with forms such as "einntreten", "einrteten", and "einterten". 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, "einzutreten", "einreden", "eintragen", 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 eintreten, spelled E-I-N-T-R-E-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eintreten in …; Hilfsverb „sein:“ einen Raum betreten
- 2Hilfsverb „haben:“ etwas, meist ein Hindernis auf dem Weg in etwas hinein, mit dem Fuß zerstören
- 3auf jemanden/etwas eintreten; Hilfsverb „haben:“ mit dem Fuß gegen eine Person oder ein Tier treten
- 4für etwas/jemanden eintreten; Hilfsverb „sein:“ sich dafür einsetzen, für etwas wirken
- 5Hilfsverb „sein:“ Tatsache sein, gerade passieren
- 6eintreten in …; Hilfsverb „sein:“ sich einer Gruppierung anschließen, in etwas aufgenommen werden
- 7für jemanden eintreten; Hilfsverb „sein:“ jemanden ersetzen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: einntreten,einrteten,einterten,eintreetn,eintretenn,eintretne,eintretten,eintrreten,eintrteen,einttreten,eitnreten,enitreten,ientreten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for eintreten
Misspelling Variants of "eintreten"
Frequency rank: #7,459 in German
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Nearby German words
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