Funktion
[fʊŋkˈt͡si̯oːn]
The verdict
“Funktion” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,387
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aufgabe, Sinn und Zweck
Corpus desk
Index DE-funktion · Funktion · German
Funktion · rank #1,387 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,387
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH froh
Nearest frequency peer: froh (-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 „Funktion“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- David
David
98,617 corpus weight
- Dresden
Dresden
98,616 corpus weight
- froh
froh
98,615 corpus weight
- Funktion
Funktion
98,614 corpus weight
- genutzt
genutzt
98,613 corpus weight
- gesetzt
gesetzt
98,612 corpus weight
What this shows „Funktion“ 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 | Funktion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fʊŋkˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Funktion“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Funktion (IPA [fʊŋkˈt͡si̯oːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,387 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Funktion, with forms such as "ffunktion", "fnuktion", and "fukntion". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Funktionen", "Funktionär", "funktional", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Funktion, spelled F-U-N-K-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Aufgabe, Sinn und Zweck
- 2eindeutige Abbildung zwischen zwei Mengen
- 3Konstrukt, das einen Wert zurückliefert
- 4Begriff, der in verschiedenen Strömungen der Linguistik Unterschiedliches bedeutet: in der Syntax zum Beispiel wird mit diesem Begriff die Rolle, die Wortgruppen im Satz erfüllen (Subjekt, Objekt …), bezeichnet und in der Sprechakttheorie wird die Mitteilungsabsicht des Sprechers/Schreibers als kommunikative Funktion bezeichnet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Funktion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Was ist Deine Funktion in der Firma?
Am 1. März 2012 tritt er [Johannes Ebert] den Posten als Generalsekretär an. In dieser Funktion ist er auch Sprecher des Vorstandes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffunktion
- fnuktion
- fukntion
- funkiton
- funkktion
- funktino
- funktionn
- funktoin
- funkttion
- funnktion
- funtkion
- ufnktion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Funktion - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Funktion", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).