Einweihung
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,134
in German word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Einweihung is aGermannoun. It means: Festakt, in dem ein Gebäude oder eine Institution offiziell seiner Bestimmung übergeben wird Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯nˌvaɪ̯ʊŋ]. Often confused with Einweisung and Einleitung.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Einweihung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nˌvaɪ̯ʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Einweihung is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nˌvaɪ̯ʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,134 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for Einweihung, with forms such as "einewihung", "einnweihung", and "einwehiung". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Einweisung", "Einleitung", "Einteilung", 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 Einweihung, spelled E-I-N-W-E-I-H-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Festakt, in dem ein Gebäude oder eine Institution offiziell seiner Bestimmung übergeben wird
- 2Handlung, jemand mit etwas bekannt/vertraut zu machen, das er bis dahin noch nicht wusste
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: einewihung,einnweihung,einwehiung,einweihhung,einweihnug,einweihugn,einweihungg,einweihunng,einweiuhng,einwiehung,einwweihung,eiwneihung,eniweihung,ienweihung,ienwiehung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Einweihung
Misspelling Variants of "Einweihung"
Frequency rank: #13,134 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our German index: