Job
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#718
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Job is aGermannoun. It means: Arbeitsplatz, Stellung (Anstellung) für eine (vorübergehende) einträgliche Beschäftigung zum Zweck des Gelderwerbs Pronounced [d͡ʒɔp]. It ranks #718 in German word frequency. Often confused with JS and Joy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Job |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d͡ʒɔp] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Job is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d͡ʒɔp]. Corpus data places it at rank #718 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Job in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "JS", "Joy", "Joh", 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 Job, spelled J-O-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arbeitsplatz, Stellung (Anstellung) für eine (vorübergehende) einträgliche Beschäftigung zum Zweck des Gelderwerbs
- 2Arbeit oder berufliche Tätigkeit
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #718 in German
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