erstaunt

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The German entry for erstaunt is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈʃtaʊ̯nt]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,463 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "über etwas staunend".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for erstaunt, with forms such as "errstaunt", "ersatunt", and "ersstaunt". 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, "erstarrt", "erstaunen", 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 erstaunt, spelled E-R-S-T-A-U-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.