Kissen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,781
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Kissen is aGermannoun. It means: mit weichem Füllmaterial befüllter Beutel zur Unterpolsterung und Stützung von Körperteilen; Accessoire in der Gestaltung der Wohnräume Pronounced [ˈkɪsn̩]. It ranks #7,781 in German word frequency. Often confused with Kiste and Küsse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kissen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɪsn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kissen is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɪsn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,781 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mit weichem Füllmaterial befüllter Beutel zur Unterpolsterung und Stützung von Körperteilen; Accessoire in der Gestaltung der Wohnräume".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Kissen, with forms such as "ikssen", "kisen", and "kisesn". 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, "Kiste", "Küsse", "kosten", 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 Kissen, spelled K-I-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit weichem Füllmaterial befüllter Beutel zur Unterpolsterung und Stützung von Körperteilen; Accessoire in der Gestaltung der Wohnräume
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ikssen,kisen,kisesn,kissenn,kissne,kißen,kkissen,ksisen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kissen
Misspelling Variants of "Kissen"
Frequency rank: #7,781 in German
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