Erinnerung
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,877
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Erinnerung is aGermannoun. It means: die Fähigkeit, Vergangenes im Gedächtnis zu behalten; die Summe aller Erinnerungen [2] eines Menschen Pronounced [ɛɐ̯ˈʔɪnəʁʊŋ]. It ranks #1,877 in German word frequency. Often confused with Erinnerungen and erinnern.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erinnerung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈʔɪnəʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Erinnerung is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈʔɪnəʁʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,877 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 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Erinnerung, with forms such as "eirnnerung", "erinenrung", and "erinerung". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Erinnerungen", "erinnern", 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 Erinnerung, spelled E-R-I-N-N-E-R-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Fähigkeit, Vergangenes im Gedächtnis zu behalten; die Summe aller Erinnerungen [2] eines Menschen
- 2ein bestimmter Gedanke, der durch die Fähigkeit [1] verblieben ist
- 3die Erinnerung [2] an ein bestimmtes Ereignis oder eine bestimmte Person; oft in Form eines Denkmals oder Ähnlichem manifestiert
- 4ein Text oder Zeichen mit dem Zweck, die Erinnerung [1] wieder aufzufrischen
- 5ohne Plural ein Rechtsbehelf, der innerhalb derselben Instanz zu einer gerichtlichen Überprüfung einer Maßnahme führt, die ein Gerichtsbeamter oder ein ersuchter oder beauftragter Richter getroffen hat
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eirnnerung,erinenrung,erinerung,erinnernug,erinnerrung,erinnerugn,erinnerungg,erinnerunng,erinneurng,erinnreung,erninerung,errinnerung,reinnerung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Erinnerung
Misspelling Variants of "Erinnerung"
Frequency rank: #1,877 in German
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