Erlösung
[ɛɐ̯ˈløːzʊŋ]
The verdict
“Erlösung” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,055
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Befreiung von etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-erlosung · Erlösung · German
Erlösung · rank #14,055 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,055
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erkrankte
Nearest frequency peer: erkrankte (-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 „Erlösung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Englands
Englands
85,949 corpus weight
- entlastet
entlastet
85,948 corpus weight
- erkrankte
erkrankte
85,947 corpus weight
- Erlösung
Erlösung
85,946 corpus weight
- erneuern
erneuern
85,945 corpus weight
- ernährt
ernährt
85,944 corpus weight
What this shows „Erlösung“ 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 | Erlösung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈløːzʊŋ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Erlösung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Erlösung (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈløːzʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,055 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Erlösung, with forms such as "elrösung", "erllösung", and "erlsöung". 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, "Erlösen", "Erhöhung", "Erholung", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Erlösung, spelled E-R-L-Ö-S-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Befreiung von etwas
- 2Prozess oder ein Punkt des Heraustretens aus einem Zustand der Unfreiheit, Bedrängung, Entfremdung oder der vererbten Sünde
- 3Freikaufen eines Sklaven
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Erlösung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Gang zur Toilette brachte für ihn endlich Erlösung.
„Wenn einst – und das muß ja kommen, wenn unsere ganze Kultur nicht untergehen soll – wenn einst die Welt von diesem größten aller Übel, vom Krieg, erlöst sein wird, so wird Andrejew mit seinem unvergleichlichen Kunstwerk an dieser Erlösung mitgearbeitet haben, wie kein Zweiter.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elrösung
- erllösung
- erlsöung
- erlösnug
- erlössung
- erlösugn
- erlösungg
- erlösunng
- erlöusng
- errlösung
- erölsung
- relösung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Erlösung - 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 "Erlösung", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).