industry

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The verdict

“industry” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,783. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,783
frequency rank, German
1,488
“I” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Industrie

Corpus desk

Index DE-industry · industry · German

industry · rank #27,783 · 13 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,783
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,488
  • PHOTO-FINISH Industrien

Nearest frequency peer: Industrien (-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 „industry“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „industry“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

industry vs of
0% similar
industry vs TO
0% similar
industry vs video
13% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for industry
PropertyValue
Headwordindustry
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#27,783
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „industry“

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).industryliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Industrien“ (#27,782), „inferno“ (#27,784), „Industrieller“ (#27,781). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „industry“ bei #27,783. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around industry (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,783 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for industry, with forms such as "idnustry", "inddustry", and "indsutry". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "TO", "video", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is industry, spelled I-N-D-U-S-T-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Industrie
  2. 2
    Branche, Wirtschaftszweig

This word in other languages

industrie(Français)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • idnustry
  • inddustry
  • indsutry
  • indusrty
  • indusstry
  • industrry
  • industryy
  • industtry
  • industyr
  • indutsry
  • inndustry
  • inudstry
  • nidustry

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of industry - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

idnustry2inddustry1indsutry2indusrty2indusstry1industrry1industryy1industtry1
Edit distance from "industry"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "industry"?
"industry" is spelled I-N-D-U-S-T-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "industry" mean?
As a noun, "industry" means: Industrie
What words are commonly confused with "industry"?
"industry" is commonly confused with "of", "TO", "video". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "industry"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "industry" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "industry" come from?
"industry" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "industry", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

interner#27,788Katholik#27,803Kentucky#27,804klatscht#27,809

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

imperator13 variantsHauptthema13 variantsLeserinnen13 variantsgebremst13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list