Italian
[ɪˈtæliən]
The verdict
“Italian” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #47,503 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #47,503
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Sprache Italienisch
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Italian |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪˈtæliən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Italian” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Italian is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪˈtæliən]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,503 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Sprache Italienisch".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Italian, with forms such as "iatlian", "itailan", and "italain". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Italiens", "Italia", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct German form is Italian, spelled I-T-A-L-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1die Sprache Italienisch
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iatlian,itailan,italain,italiann,italina,itallian,itlaian,ittalian,tialian
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Italian - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “Italian”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is I-T-A-L-I-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɪˈtæliən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Italiens” - see the side-by-side comparison. Italian vs Italiens
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.