Inspektion
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,189
in German word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
Inspektion is aGermannoun. It means: das Inspizieren von etwas durch regelmäßige Besichtigung, Überprüfung Pronounced [ɪnspɛkˈt͡si̯oːn]. Often confused with Inspektor and Inspektionen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Inspektion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪnspɛkˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Inspektion is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪnspɛkˈt͡si̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,189 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for Inspektion, with forms such as "innspektion", "inpsektion", and "insepktion". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Inspektor", "Inspektionen", "Infektion", 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 Inspektion, spelled I-N-S-P-E-K-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Inspizieren von etwas durch regelmäßige Besichtigung, Überprüfung
- 2Aufsichtsamt, Behörde der die Prüfung, Aufsicht über etwas obliegt
- 3Bezeichnung militärischer Einheiten an Ausbildungseinrichtungen; Untergliederungsform von Lehrgruppen
- 4die formellste Reviewart
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innspektion,inpsektion,insepktion,inspekiton,inspekktion,inspektino,inspektionn,inspektoin,inspekttion,inspetkion,inspketion,insppektion,insspektion,isnpektion,nispektion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Inspektion
Misspelling Variants of "Inspektion"
Frequency rank: #16,189 in German
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