Ethnie
[ɛtˈniː]
The verdict
“Ethnie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,242. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,242
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gruppe von Menschen, die sich einer Kultur, Sprache oder Religion zugehörig fühlen
Corpus desk
Index DE-ethnie · Ethnie · German
Ethnie · rank #21,242 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,242
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH ESA
Nearest frequency peer: ESA (-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 „Ethnie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Erreichung
Erreichung
78,762 corpus weight
- erstaunen
erstaunen
78,761 corpus weight
- ESA
ESA
78,760 corpus weight
- Ethnie
Ethnie
78,759 corpus weight
- Etikett
Etikett
78,758 corpus weight
- europäisch
europäisch
78,757 corpus weight
What this shows „Ethnie“ 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 | Ethnie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛtˈniː] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Ethnie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Ethnie (IPA [ɛtˈniː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,242 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gruppe von Menschen, die sich einer Kultur, Sprache oder Religion zugehörig fühlen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ethnie, with forms such as "ehtnie", "ethhnie", and "ethine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Ethnien", "Ethik", "ernie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Ethnie, spelled E-T-H-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Gruppe von Menschen, die sich einer Kultur, Sprache oder Religion zugehörig fühlen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ethnie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In manchen Gebieten der Erde, zum Beispiel in Neuguinea, gibt es viele Ethnien in relativ begrenzten Gebieten.
„Dieses Beispiel zeigt zugleich die Schwierigkeit auch in der Gegenwart, eine Gruppe als Ethnie einzugrenzen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehtnie
- ethhnie
- ethine
- ethnei
- ethnnie
- etnhie
- etthnie
- tehnie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ethnie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Ethnie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).