ihnen

/[ˈiːnən]/ pron

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#170

in German word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

ihnen is aGermanpron. It means: Personalpronomen 3. Person Plural Dativ Pronounced [ˈiːnən]. It ranks #170 in German word frequency. Often confused with Inn and Ihre.

Key facts for ihnen
PropertyValue
Headwordihnen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPron
IPA[ˈiːnən]
Letters5
Frequency rank#170
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ihnen in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ihnen is 5 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈiːnən]. Corpus data places it at rank #170 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personalpronomen 3. Person Plural Dativ".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ihnen, with forms such as "hinen", "ihenn", and "ihhnen". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Inn", "Ihre", "Iren", 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 ihnen, spelled I-H-N-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personalpronomen 3. Person Plural Dativ

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: hinen,ihenn,ihhnen,ihnenn,ihnne,ihnnen,inhen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ihnen

Misspelling Variants of "ihnen"

hinen5ihenn5ihhnen6ihnenn6ihnne5ihnnen6inhen5
Misspelling Variants of "ihnen"

Frequency rank: #170 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ihnen"?
"ihnen" is spelled I-H-N-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈiːnən].
What does "ihnen" mean?
As a pron, "ihnen" means: Personalpronomen 3. Person Plural Dativ
What words are commonly confused with "ihnen"?
"ihnen" is commonly confused with "Inn", "Ihre", "Iren". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ihnen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ihnen" is [ˈiːnən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ihnen" come from?
"ihnen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter I in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.