Gefängnis
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,825
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Gefängnis is aGermannoun. It means: Gebäude oder Anlage, in dem Personen, die vom Gericht zu einer unbedingten Haftstrafe verurteilt wurden, unter Verschluss gehalten werden Pronounced [ɡəˈfɛŋnɪs]. It ranks #2,825 in German word frequency. Often confused with Gefängnisse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gefängnis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfɛŋnɪs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gefängnis is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈfɛŋnɪs]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,825 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for Gefängnis, with forms such as "egfängnis", "geffängnis", and "gefnägnis". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Gefängnisse", 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 Gefängnis, spelled G-E-F-Ä-N-G-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gebäude oder Anlage, in dem Personen, die vom Gericht zu einer unbedingten Haftstrafe verurteilt wurden, unter Verschluss gehalten werden
- 2zeitliche Strafe, die in ^([1]) verbracht werden muss
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egfängnis,geffängnis,gefnägnis,gefägnnis,gefänggnis,gefängins,gefängniss,gefängnnis,gefängnsi,gefänngis,gefänngnis,geäfngnis,gfeängnis,ggefängnis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Gefängnis
Misspelling Variants of "Gefängnis"
Frequency rank: #2,825 in German
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