Fokus
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,524
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
Fokus is aGermannoun. It means: Punkt, in dem sich achsenparallel einfallende Strahlen nach der Brechung durch eine Linse bzw. Reflexion durch einen Hohlspiegel schneiden Pronounced [ˈfoːkʊs]. It ranks #3,524 in German word frequency. Often confused with four and Foul.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fokus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoːkʊs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Fokus is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoːkʊs]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,524 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Fokus, with forms such as "ffokus", "fkous", and "fokkus". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "four", "Foul", "fotos", 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 Fokus, spelled F-O-K-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Punkt, in dem sich achsenparallel einfallende Strahlen nach der Brechung durch eine Linse bzw. Reflexion durch einen Hohlspiegel schneiden
- 2der Punkt, auf den alles gerichtet ist
- 3Ebene, auf die scharfgestellt wird
- 4Informationskern, Mitteilungsschwerpunkt einer Äußerung oder eines Satzes
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffokus,fkous,fokkus,foksu,fokuss,fouks,ofkus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Fokus
Misspelling Variants of "Fokus"
Frequency rank: #3,524 in German
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