imago
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,248
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
imago is aGermannoun. It means: künstlerische Nachbildung von jemandem oder etwas; Bild, Bildnis, Abbild Often confused with IMO and Ingo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imago |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for imago is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #35,248 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for imago, with forms such as "iamgo", "imaggo", and "imaog". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "IMO", "Ingo", "Imam", 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 imago, spelled I-M-A-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1künstlerische Nachbildung von jemandem oder etwas; Bild, Bildnis, Abbild
- 2aus Wachs gefertigte Totenmaske eines Ahnen, die im Atrium aufbewahrt wurde und beim Leichenzug getragen wurde; Imago
- 3Bild, das von einer Oberfläche reflektiert wird; Spiegelbild
- 4Bild, das von Objekten ausgesendet wird und vom Auge erfasst wird; Eidolon
- 5Laut, der reflekiert wird; Echo
- 6Bild von etwas nicht real Existierendem; Scheinbild, Schattenbild, Schatten, Trugbild, Phantom
- 7Repräsentierung im Geiste; gestiges Bild, Vorstellung
- 8mentales Bild
- 9Repräsentierung in Worten; Wortbild, Beschreibung, Fabel
- 10Vergleich, Gleichnis
- 11Person, die einer anderen im Aussehen gleicht; Abbild, Ebenbild
- 12Beispiel, Verkörperung
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iamgo,imaggo,imaog,imgao,immago,miago
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for imago
Misspelling Variants of "imago"
Frequency rank: #35,248 in German
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