entziehen
[ɛntˈt͡siːən]
The verdict
“entziehen” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,196
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (ein Recht oder eine Erlaubnis) wegnehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-entziehen · entziehen · German
entziehen · rank #8,196 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,196
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Einzelheiten
Nearest frequency peer: Einzelheiten (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „entziehen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- eingestuft
eingestuft
91,808 corpus weight
- Einzelhandel
Einzelhandel
91,807 corpus weight
- Einzelheiten
Einzelheiten
91,806 corpus weight
- entziehen
entziehen
91,805 corpus weight
- Ermittlung
Ermittlung
91,804 corpus weight
- Erneuerung
Erneuerung
91,803 corpus weight
What this shows „entziehen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entziehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛntˈt͡siːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „entziehen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around entziehen (IPA [ɛntˈt͡siːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,196 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for entziehen, with forms such as "enntziehen", "entizehen", and "enttziehen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "erziehen", "entzieht", "entgehen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is entziehen, spelled E-N-T-Z-I-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1(ein Recht oder eine Erlaubnis) wegnehmen
- 2etwas entfernen, die Anzahl oder Menge von etwas verringern
- 3einer Verpflichtung nicht nachkommen; so handeln, dass man die Konsequenzen einer Tat nicht tragen muss
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entziehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man wird der Mutter das Sorgerecht entziehen und dem Vater zusprechen.
Nach dem Diebstahl von Büromaterial entzog der Chef seiner Sekretärin das Vertrauen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enntziehen
- entizehen
- enttziehen
- entzeihen
- entzieehn
- entziehenn
- entziehhen
- entziehne
- entziheen
- entzziehen
- enztiehen
- etnziehen
- netziehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entziehen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "entziehen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).