Kanon
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,786
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Kanon is aGermannoun. It means: eine Liste von wichtigen und oft als verbindlich oder grundlegend angesehenen Schriften oder Werken in Religion, Literatur, Musik, Kunst und vielen Wissenschaften Pronounced [ˈkaːnɔn]. Often confused with Kino and kenn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kanon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaːnɔn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kanon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaːnɔn]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,786 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 Kanon, with forms such as "aknon", "kanno", and "kannon". 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, "Kino", "kenn", "know", 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 Kanon, spelled K-A-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Liste von wichtigen und oft als verbindlich oder grundlegend angesehenen Schriften oder Werken in Religion, Literatur, Musik, Kunst und vielen Wissenschaften
- 2das Hochgebet der Eucharistiefeier
- 3mehrstimmiges Lied, bei dem jedoch die einzelnen Stimmen zeitlich versetzt sind
- 4ein Musikstück, bei dem nacheinander kontrapunktisch mit allen Stimmen ein bestimmtes Thema durchgeführt wird
- 5die verallgemeinerte Lösung einer Aufgabe, auf die sich dann die Einzellösungen mit bestimmten Wertbelegungen berufen können
- 6einzelne Schriften von Demokrit und Epikur mit diesem Namen
- 7Bildende Kunst: die Gesamtheit der Regeln für die Proportionierung, vor allen Dingen des menschlichen Körpers
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aknon,kanno,kannon,kanonn,kaonn,kkanon,knaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kanon
Misspelling Variants of "Kanon"
Frequency rank: #22,786 in German
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