Fraktion
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,247
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Fraktion is aGermannoun. It means: ein freiwilliger Zusammenschluss von Abgeordneten zur Durchsetzung ihrer politischen Interessen und Ziele in einem Parlament Pronounced [fʁakˈt͡si̯oːn]. It ranks #3,247 in German word frequency. Often confused with Funktion and Fraktionen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fraktion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fʁakˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Fraktion is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fʁakˈt͡si̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,247 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Fraktion, with forms such as "farktion", "ffraktion", and "frakiton". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Funktion", "Fraktionen", "Fiktion", 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 Fraktion, spelled F-R-A-K-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein freiwilliger Zusammenschluss von Abgeordneten zur Durchsetzung ihrer politischen Interessen und Ziele in einem Parlament
- 2eine Gruppe von Personen innerhalb einer übergeordneten Gemeinschaft (zum Beispiel eines Vereines), die eigenständige Interessen verfolgt
- 3eine Untergruppe von Substanzen in einem Stoff (zum Beispiel die Eiweiß-Fraktion der Milch)
- 4Destillationsprodukte, die innerhalb bestimmter Temperaturbereiche gewonnen werden (Fraktionierung)
- 5in einigen Gebieten der Schweiz (Graubünden, Tessin), Österreichs (Tirol) und in Italien die einer Gemeinde untergeordneten Orte oder Ortsteile
- 6derjenige Teil der Abendmahlsliturgie, in dem der Priester das Brot bricht
- 7Anteil
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: farktion,ffraktion,frakiton,frakktion,fraktino,fraktionn,fraktoin,frakttion,fratkion,frkation,frraktion,rfaktion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Fraktion
Misspelling Variants of "Fraktion"
Frequency rank: #3,247 in German
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Nearby German words
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