injection

[ɪnˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)n]

/[ɪnˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)n]/ noun

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The verdict

“injection” is uncommon German (frequency #71,475 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,475
frequency rank, German
1,488
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Injektion, die Spritze

Corpus desk

Index DE-injection · injection · German

injection · rank #71,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #71,475
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,488
  • PHOTO-FINISH Indexfonds

Nearest frequency peer: Indexfonds (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „injection“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „injection“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for injection
PropertyValue
Headwordinjection
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɪnˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)n]
Letters9
Frequency rank#71,475
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „injection“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.injectionfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Indexfonds“ (#71,474), „Instrumentes“ (#71,477), „inte“ (#71,478). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „injection“ bei #71,475. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

injection is uncommon German at frequency #71,475 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɪnˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for injection, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 injection, spelled I-N-J-E-C-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Injektion, die Spritze
  2. 2
    Einblasen/Einblasung, Eindüsung, Einspritzung

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how injection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „There are three common forms of dependency injection: setter-, interface- and constructor-based injection, where the responsibility of injecting the dependency lies upon the client, the service or the constructor method respectively.“

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 "injection"?
"injection" is spelled I-N-J-E-C-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪnˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)n].
What does "injection" mean?
As a noun, "injection" means: die Injektion, die Spritze
How do you pronounce "injection"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "injection" is [ɪnˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)n]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "injection" come from?
"injection" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Irrgarten#71,485huckepack#71,461herzhafte#71,443Keramiken#71,509

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list