Essenz
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,331
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
Essenz is aGermannoun. It means: das eigentliche Wesen, der eigentliche Kern einer Sache Pronounced [ɛˈsɛnt͡s]. Often confused with Essex and esse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Essenz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛˈsɛnt͡s] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Essenz is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛˈsɛnt͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,331 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Essenz, with forms such as "esenz", "esesnz", and "essennz". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Essex", "esse", "essen", 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 Essenz, spelled E-S-S-E-N-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das eigentliche Wesen, der eigentliche Kern einer Sache
- 2die Wesenheit, die innere Natur oder das Sosein einer Sache
- 3eine hoch konzentrierte Lösung meist pflanzlicher Stoffe
- 4eine stark eingekochte Brühe von Fleisch, Fisch oder Gemüse zur Geschmacksanreicherung von Speisen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esenz,esesnz,essennz,essenzz,essezn,essnez,eßenz,sesenz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Essenz
Misspelling Variants of "Essenz"
Frequency rank: #22,331 in German
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