Eisen
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,582
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Eisen is aGermannoun. It means: chemisches Element, silberweißes, bei Feuchtigkeit leicht oxidierendes Metall Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯zn̩]. It ranks #5,582 in German word frequency. Often confused with esse and Esel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eisen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯zn̩] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Eisen is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯zn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,582 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Eisen, with forms such as "eiesn", "eisenn", and "eisne". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "esse", "Esel", "even", 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 Eisen, spelled E-I-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1chemisches Element, silberweißes, bei Feuchtigkeit leicht oxidierendes Metall
- 2Gegenstand aus Eisen oder aus Eisenverbindungen
- 3Bezeichnung bestimmter Golfschläger
- 4Hufeisen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eiesn,eisenn,eisne,eissen,iesen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Eisen
Misspelling Variants of "Eisen"
Frequency rank: #5,582 in German
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