erschien
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,591
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
erschien is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs erscheinen Pronounced [ɛɐ̯ˈʃiːn]. It ranks #2,591 in German word frequency. Often confused with Eschen and ersuchen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | erschien |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈʃiːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for erschien is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈʃiːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,591 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for erschien, with forms such as "ercshien", "errschien", and "erscchien". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Eschen", "ersuchen", "erschienen", 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 erschien, spelled E-R-S-C-H-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs erscheinen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs erscheinen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ercshien,errschien,erscchien,erschein,erschhien,erschienn,erschine,erscihen,ershcien,ersschien,esrchien,reschien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for erschien
Misspelling Variants of "erschien"
Frequency rank: #2,591 in German
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Nearby German words
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