Fenster
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,129
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
Fenster is aGermannoun. It means: eine baulich verschieden ausgestaltete verglaste Öffnung in einem Bauwerk, deren hauptsächliche Funktion darin besteht, Licht in das Bauwerk zu führen und dieses zu belüften Pronounced [ˈfɛnstɐ]. It ranks #1,129 in German word frequency. Often confused with feste and Festen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fenster |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛnstɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Fenster is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɛnstɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,129 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Fenster, with forms such as "efnster", "fennster", and "fensetr". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "feste", "Festen", "fester", 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 Fenster, spelled F-E-N-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine baulich verschieden ausgestaltete verglaste Öffnung in einem Bauwerk, deren hauptsächliche Funktion darin besteht, Licht in das Bauwerk zu führen und dieses zu belüften
- 2das gerahmte Glas, das in eine Fensteröffnung eingesetzt wird
- 3eine zeitliche, temporäre Öffnung in einem (mitunter häufig auch abstrakten) Medium
- 4ein Bildschirmelement in der Informationstechnologie
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efnster,fennster,fensetr,fensster,fensterr,fenstre,fenstter,fentser,fesnter,ffenster,fnester
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Fenster
Misspelling Variants of "Fenster"
Frequency rank: #1,129 in German
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