Information
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,972
in German word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Information is aGermannoun. It means: kurze informierende Mitteilung Pronounced [ɪnfɔʁmaˈt͡si̯oːn]. It ranks #1,972 in German word frequency. Often confused with informativ and informative.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Information |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪnfɔʁmaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Information is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪnfɔʁmaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,972 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for Information, with forms such as "ifnormation", "infformation", and "infomration". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "informativ", "informative", "informativen", 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 Information, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1kurze informierende Mitteilung
- 2die Beseitigung von Unbestimmtheit, das Informieren
- 3über alles Wichtige in Kenntnis setzende Auskunft
- 4Stelle, an der Auskünfte ausgegeben, vermittelt oder eingeholt werden können
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnormation,infformation,infomration,inforamtion,informaiton,informatino,informationn,informatoin,informattion,informmation,informtaion,inforrmation,infromation,innformation,inofrmation,niformation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Information
Misspelling Variants of "Information"
Frequency rank: #1,972 in German
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Nearby German words
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