erwähnen
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,697
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
erwähnen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas nebenbei und beiläufig aussprechen/anführen, zur Sprache bringen Pronounced [ɛɐ̯ˈvɛːnən]. It ranks #4,697 in German word frequency. Often confused with erwähnt and erwarten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | erwähnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈvɛːnən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for erwähnen is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈvɛːnən]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,697 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "etwas nebenbei und beiläufig aussprechen/anführen, zur Sprache bringen".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for erwähnen, with forms such as "errwähnen", "erwhänen", and "erwwähnen". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "erwähnt", "erwarten", "erzählen", 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 erwähnen, spelled E-R-W-Ä-H-N-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas nebenbei und beiläufig aussprechen/anführen, zur Sprache bringen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: errwähnen,erwhänen,erwwähnen,erwähenn,erwähhnen,erwähnenn,erwähnne,erwähnnen,erwänhen,eräwhnen,ewrähnen,rewähnen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for erwähnen
Misspelling Variants of "erwähnen"
Frequency rank: #4,697 in German
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