Industrie
[ɪndʊsˈtʁiː]
The verdict
“Industrie” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #1,599 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,599
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gesamtheit aller Betriebe und Firmen im Bereich der maschinellen und automatisierten Warenproduktion
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 | Industrie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪndʊsˈtʁiː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Industrie” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Industrie is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪndʊsˈtʁiː]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,599 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gesamtheit aller Betriebe und Firmen im Bereich der maschinellen und automatisierten Warenproduktion".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Industrie, with forms such as "idnustrie", "inddustrie", and "indsutrie". 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, "industry", "industries", "Industrien", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Industrie, spelled I-N-D-U-S-T-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Gesamtheit aller Betriebe und Firmen im Bereich der maschinellen und automatisierten Warenproduktion
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnustrie,inddustrie,indsutrie,indusrtie,indusstrie,industire,industrei,industrrie,industtrie,indutsrie,inndustrie,inudstrie,nidustrie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Industrie - 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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Using “Industrie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is I-N-D-U-S-T-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɪndʊsˈtʁiː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “industry” - see the side-by-side comparison. Industrie vs industry
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.