jener
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,322
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jener is aGermanpron. It means: verweist auf ein räumlich entfernteres Objekt beziehungsweise auf das räumlich entferntere von mindestens zwei Objekten Pronounced [ˈjeːnɐ]. It ranks #3,322 in German word frequency. Often confused with Jens and June.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jener |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [ˈjeːnɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for jener is 5 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeːnɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,322 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for jener, with forms such as "ejner", "jeenr", and "jenerr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Jens", "June", "jenes", 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 jener, spelled J-E-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1verweist auf ein räumlich entfernteres Objekt beziehungsweise auf das räumlich entferntere von mindestens zwei Objekten
- 2verweist auf etwas bereits Erwähntes oder als bekannt Vorausgesetztes
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ejner,jeenr,jenerr,jenner,jenre,jjener,jneer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jener
Misspelling Variants of "jener"
Frequency rank: #3,322 in German
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