Ereignis
[ɛɐ̯ˈʔaɪ̯ɡnɪs]
The verdict
“Ereignis” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,424
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meist bedeutsames – Geschehen oder Erlebnis
Corpus desk
Index DE-ereignis · Ereignis · German
Ereignis · rank #4,424 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,424
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Entwicklungen
Nearest frequency peer: Entwicklungen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ereignis”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- empfohlen
empfohlen
95,580 corpus weight
- Engen
Engen
95,579 corpus weight
- Entwicklung…
Entwicklungen
95,578 corpus weight
- Ereignis
Ereignis
95,577 corpus weight
- erfunden
erfunden
95,576 corpus weight
- Erkenntnisse
Erkenntnisse
95,575 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ereignis” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Ereignis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈʔaɪ̯ɡnɪs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Ereignis” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Ereignis (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈʔaɪ̯ɡnɪs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,424 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ereignis, with forms such as "eerignis", "ereginis", and "ereiggnis". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Ereignisse", "ereignet", "ereignen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Ereignis, spelled E-R-E-I-G-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1meist bedeutsames – Geschehen oder Erlebnis
- 2Teil einer Menge von Ergebnissen eines Zufallsexperiments, dem eine Wahrscheinlichkeit zugeordnet werden kann
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ereignis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das war das sonderbarste Ereignis der Weltgeschichte.
„John Hammond, stets ein aufmerksamer Beobachter der Ereignisse seiner Zeit, erkennt sehr bald, welche Umwälzungen Homer Capeharts Erfindung der Jukebox für die Phono-Industrie bringen wird.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eerignis
- ereginis
- ereiggnis
- ereigins
- ereigniss
- ereignnis
- ereignsi
- ereingis
- eriegnis
- erreignis
- reeignis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ereignis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Ereignis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "Ereignis" maps to 3 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Ereignisse". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,424 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "E" letter cohort. E–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.