Empfang
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,264
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
Empfang is aGermannoun. It means: das Empfangen einer Übertragung (zum Beispiel Rundfunk, Funk, Handy, …) Pronounced [ɛmˈp͡faŋ]. It ranks #4,264 in German word frequency. Often confused with empfing and empfange.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Empfang |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛmˈp͡faŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Empfang is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛmˈp͡faŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,264 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 Empfang, with forms such as "emfpang", "emmpfang", and "empafng". 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, "empfing", "empfange", "empfangen", 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 Empfang, spelled E-M-P-F-A-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Empfangen einer Übertragung (zum Beispiel Rundfunk, Funk, Handy, …)
- 2Begrüßung (zum Beispiel von Gästen, Mitarbeitern, Freunden und Ähnlichen)
- 3ein Fest zur Begrüßung von Gästen
- 4eine Rezeption in einer Empfangshalle
- 5das Bekommen, das Entgegennehmen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emfpang,emmpfang,empafng,empfagn,empfangg,empfanng,empffang,empfnag,emppfang,epmfang,mepfang
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Empfang
Misspelling Variants of "Empfang"
Frequency rank: #4,264 in German
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