Expansion
[ɛkspanˈzi̯oːn]
The verdict
“Expansion” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,279. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,279
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Zunahme der räumlichen Ausdehnung
Corpus desk
Index DE-expansion · Expansion · German
Expansion · rank #12,279 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,279
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Eskalation
Nearest frequency peer: Eskalation (-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 „Expansion“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- erstatten
erstatten
87,725 corpus weight
- Eskalation
Eskalation
87,723 corpus weight
- Expansion
Expansion
87,722 corpus weight
- Fabriken
Fabriken
87,721 corpus weight
- feierlich
feierlich
87,720 corpus weight
- folgend
folgend
87,719 corpus weight
What this shows „Expansion“ 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 | Expansion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛkspanˈzi̯oːn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Expansion“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Expansion (IPA [ɛkspanˈzi̯oːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,279 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Expansion, with forms such as "epxansion", "exapnsion", and "expanison". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Explosion", "extension", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Expansion, spelled E-X-P-A-N-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1die Zunahme der räumlichen Ausdehnung
- 2Erweiterung eines Computerspiels oder einer Spielwelt
- 3operationales Verfahren in der Syntax: Ersetzung einer Wortgruppe durch eine größere Wortgruppe
- 4Ersetzungsregel
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Expansion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Islamische Expansion begann Mitte der 20er Jahre.
„Die Expansion war kontinental, und die neuen Besitzungen wurden anfangs wie Kolonien behandelt.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxansion
- exapnsion
- expanison
- expannsion
- expansino
- expansionn
- expansoin
- expanssion
- expasnion
- expnasion
- exppansion
- exxpansion
- xepansion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Expansion - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).