Essig
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,618
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
Essig is aGermannoun. It means: sauer schmeckendes Würz- und Konservierungsmittel, das aus alkoholhaltigen Getränken gewonnen wird Pronounced [ˈɛsɪç]. Often confused with ewig and EStG.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Essig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛsɪç] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Essig is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɛsɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,618 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Essig, with forms such as "esig", "esisg", and "essgi". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "ewig", "EStG", "esst", 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 Essig, spelled E-S-S-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sauer schmeckendes Würz- und Konservierungsmittel, das aus alkoholhaltigen Getränken gewonnen wird
- 2kurz für Essigsäure
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esig,esisg,essgi,essigg,eßig,sesig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Essig"
Frequency rank: #15,618 in German
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