English

/[ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ]/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,919

in German word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

English is anGermanadj. It means: zu England, dessen Bevölkerung oder deren Sprache und Kultur gehörig Pronounced [ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ]. It ranks #6,919 in German word frequency. Often confused with endlich and Englisch.

Key facts for English
PropertyValue
HeadwordEnglish
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ]
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,919
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of English in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for English is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,919 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "zu England, dessen Bevölkerung oder deren Sprache und Kultur gehörig".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for English, with forms such as "egnlish", "engglish", and "engilsh". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "endlich", "Englisch", "Englische", 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 English, spelled E-N-G-L-I-S-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    zu England, dessen Bevölkerung oder deren Sprache und Kultur gehörig

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: egnlish,engglish,engilsh,englihs,englishh,englissh,engllish,englsih,enlgish,ennglish,neglish

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for English

Misspelling Variants of "English"

egnlish7engglish8engilsh7englihs7englishh8englissh8engllish8englsih7
Misspelling Variants of "English"

Frequency rank: #6,919 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "English"?
"English" is spelled E-N-G-L-I-S-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ].
What does "English" mean?
As an adj, "English" means: zu England, dessen Bevölkerung oder deren Sprache und Kultur gehörig
What words are commonly confused with "English"?
"English" is commonly confused with "endlich", "Englisch", "Englische". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "English"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "English" is [ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "English" come from?
"English" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.