Inversion
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#78,155
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Inversion is aGermannoun. It means: Umkehr, Umkehrung einer Sache Pronounced [ɪnvɛʁˈzi̯oːn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Inversion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪnvɛʁˈzi̯oːn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Inversion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪnvɛʁˈzi̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #78,155 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Inversion in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Inversion, spelled I-N-V-E-R-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Umkehr, Umkehrung einer Sache
- 2Veränderung einer Wort- oder Satzgliedstellung aus einer üblicheren in eine weniger übliche Abfolge und Ergebnis dieser Umstellung
- 3Die Umwandlung von Rohrzucker in eine Mischung bestehend aus Traubenzucker und Fruchtzucker
- 4In der atmosphärischen Schicht eine Temperaturumkehr, bei der die Temperatur ungewöhnlicherweise ansteigt
- 5Die Notenfolge der Intervalle werden umgekehrt
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Frequency rank: #78,155 in German
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