ernsthaften
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,227
in German word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
ernsthaften is anGermanadj. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft Pronounced [ˈɛʁnsthaftn̩]. Often confused with ernsthaftes and ernsthafter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ernsthaften |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈɛʁnsthaftn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #18,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ernsthaften is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɛʁnsthaftn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,227 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for ernsthaften, with forms such as "enrsthaften", "ernnsthaften", and "ernshtaften". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ernsthaftes", "ernsthafter", "ernsthaft", and more, 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 ernsthaften, spelled E-R-N-S-T-H-A-F-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 4Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 5Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 6Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 8Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 9Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 10Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 11Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
- 12Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ernsthaft
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enrsthaften,ernnsthaften,ernshtaften,ernssthaften,ernstahften,ernsthafetn,ernsthafften,ernsthaftenn,ernsthaftne,ernsthaftten,ernsthatfen,ernsthfaten,ernsthhaften,ernstthaften,erntshaften,errnsthaften,ersnthaften,rensthaften
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ernsthaften
Misspelling Variants of "ernsthaften"
Frequency rank: #18,227 in German
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