essential
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The verdict
“essential” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,864
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - essenziell, wesentlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-essential · essential · German
essential · rank #48,864 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,864
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Esra
Nearest frequency peer: Esra (-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 „essential“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ertränken
ertränken
51,141 corpus weight
- esoterischen
esoterischen
51,139 corpus weight
- Esra
Esra
51,138 corpus weight
- essential
essential
51,137 corpus weight
- essenziell
essenziell
51,136 corpus weight
- Euphemismus
Euphemismus
51,134 corpus weight
What this shows „essential“ 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 | essential |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „essential“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around essential (IPA […]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,864 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "essenziell, wesentlich".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for essential, with forms such as "esential", "esesntial", and "essenital". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "ii", "TO", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is essential, spelled E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1essenziell, wesentlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essential appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"It was very essential for Stapleton to get some article of Sir Henry's attire so that, in case he was driven to use the dog, he might always have the means of setting him upon his track."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esential
- esesntial
- essenital
- essenntial
- essentail
- essentiall
- essentila
- essenttial
- essetnial
- essnetial
- eßential
- sesential
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essential - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "essential", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).