Erlaubnis
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,585
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Erlaubnis is aGermannoun. It means: Genehmigung von etwas, Einverständnis mit etwas; Bestätigung, dass etwas Bestimmtes getan werden darf Pronounced [ɛɐ̯ˈlaʊ̯pnɪs]. It ranks #5,585 in German word frequency. Often confused with Erlebnis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erlaubnis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈlaʊ̯pnɪs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Erlaubnis is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈlaʊ̯pnɪs]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,585 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 Erlaubnis, with forms such as "elraubnis", "eralubnis", and "erlabunis". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Erlebnis", 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 Erlaubnis, spelled E-R-L-A-U-B-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genehmigung von etwas, Einverständnis mit etwas; Bestätigung, dass etwas Bestimmtes getan werden darf
- 2Verwaltungsakt, mit dem dem Bürger unter einem präventiven Verbot mit Erlaubnisvorbehalt stehende Vorhaben und Betätigungen gestattet werden, ohne bestimmte Vorhaben oder Betätigungen per se zu verbieten, sondern nur, um der Behörde im jeweiligen Einzelfall die Prüfung darüber zu ermöglichen, ob das Vorhaben oder die Betätigung gegen materielles Recht verstößt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elraubnis,eralubnis,erlabunis,erlaubbnis,erlaubins,erlaubniss,erlaubnnis,erlaubnsi,erlaunbis,erllaubnis,erluabnis,errlaubnis,relaubnis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Erlaubnis"
Frequency rank: #5,585 in German
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