Forschung
[ˈfɔʁʃʊŋ]
The verdict
“Forschung” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,694. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,694
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suche nach Lösungen zu wissenschaftlichen Problemstellungen
Corpus desk
Index DE-forschung · Forschung · German
Forschung · rank #1,694 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,694
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH europäische
Nearest frequency peer: europäische (-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 „Forschung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- echte
echte
98,310 corpus weight
- einiges
einiges
98,309 corpus weight
- europäische
europäische
98,308 corpus weight
- Forschung
Forschung
98,307 corpus weight
- geplant
geplant
98,305 corpus weight
- Grundlage
Grundlage
98,304 corpus weight
What this shows „Forschung“ 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 | Forschung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɔʁʃʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Forschung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Forschung (IPA [ˈfɔʁʃʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,694 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Forschung, with forms such as "fforschung", "forcshung", and "forrschung". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Forschungen", "forschen", "Fälschung", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Forschung, spelled F-O-R-S-C-H-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Suche nach Lösungen zu wissenschaftlichen Problemstellungen
- 2Gesamtheit der forschenden Menschen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Forschung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Forschung soll immer neue Erkenntnisse erarbeiten.
„Ohnehin sei juristische Forschung, wie sie jetzt in Kooperation mit den russischen Strafrechtlern erfolgt […], keine Selbstverständlichkeit, so der Potsdamer Rechtswissenschaftler.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforschung
- forcshung
- forrschung
- forscchung
- forschhung
- forschnug
- forschugn
- forschungg
- forschunng
- forscuhng
- forshcung
- forsschung
- fosrchung
- froschung
- ofrschung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Forschung - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Forschung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (15 here; floor ≥5).