Explosion
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,422
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
Explosion is aGermannoun. It means: plötzliche, mit lautem Knall verbundene Volumenausdehnung auf Grund von chemischen oder kernphysikalischen Reaktionen bei gleichzeitigem Temperatur- und Druckanstieg, die zur Beschädigung oder Zers... Pronounced [ɛksploˈzi̯oːn]. It ranks #6,422 in German word frequency. Often confused with Explosiv and Explosive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Explosion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛksploˈzi̯oːn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Explosion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛksploˈzi̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,422 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Explosion, with forms such as "epxlosion", "exlposion", and "expllosion". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Explosiv", "Explosive", "Explosionen", 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 Explosion, spelled E-X-P-L-O-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1plötzliche, mit lautem Knall verbundene Volumenausdehnung auf Grund von chemischen oder kernphysikalischen Reaktionen bei gleichzeitigem Temperatur- und Druckanstieg, die zur Beschädigung oder Zerstörung der Umgebung führt
- 2plötzlicher Zuwachs einer Sache; plötzlicher Anstieg der Artenvielfalt, Bevölkerung oder Kosten; enorme Steigerung sportlicher Leistung
- 3Ausbruch von Gefühlen, Wutausbruch, Zornausbruch
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxlosion,exlposion,expllosion,exploison,explosino,explosionn,explosoin,explossion,explsoion,expolsion,expplosion,exxplosion,xeplosion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Explosion
Misspelling Variants of "Explosion"
Frequency rank: #6,422 in German
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