Evolution
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,316
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Evolution is aGermannoun. It means: eine im Gegensatz zur Revolution langsam und friedlich fortschreitende Entwicklung im Geschichtsablauf oder in anderen Abläufen Pronounced [evoluˈt͡si̯oːn]. It ranks #7,316 in German word frequency. Often confused with Evaluation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Evolution |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [evoluˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Evolution is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [evoluˈt͡si̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,316 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Evolution, with forms such as "eovlution", "evloution", and "evollution". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Evaluation", 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 Evolution, spelled E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine im Gegensatz zur Revolution langsam und friedlich fortschreitende Entwicklung im Geschichtsablauf oder in anderen Abläufen
- 2die Entwicklung zu (meist) höher integrierten, komplexeren Formen im physikalisch-chemischen (Entwicklung des Weltalls und der Erde), im biologischen (Entwicklung der Lebewesen) und im kulturellen Bereich (Entwicklung der Kulturen)
- 3ein Prozess, bei dem durch Reproduktion oder Replikation von einem System Kopien hergestellt werden, die sich voneinander und von ihrem Ursprungssystem durch Variation unterscheiden und bei dem nur ein Teil dieser Kopien auf Grund von Selektion für einen weiteren Kopiervorgang zugelassen werden
- 4eine Abbildung, welche zu einem Anfangswert die (zeitliche) Entwicklung angibt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eovlution,evloution,evollution,evoltuion,evoluiton,evolutino,evolutionn,evolutoin,evoluttion,evoultion,evvolution,veolution
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Evolution"
Frequency rank: #7,316 in German
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