Konvention
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,187
in German word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Konvention is aGermannoun. It means: eine, häufig internationale, multilaterale Übereinkunft, Vereinbarung Pronounced [kɔnvɛnˈt͡si̯oːn]. Often confused with Konzeption and Konversion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Konvention |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔnvɛnˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Konvention is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɔnvɛnˈt͡si̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,187 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Konvention, with forms such as "kkonvention", "knovention", and "konevntion". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Konzeption", "Konversion", "Konventionen", 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 Konvention, spelled K-O-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine, häufig internationale, multilaterale Übereinkunft, Vereinbarung
- 2ein häufig aus ^([1]) resultierender Vertrag, ein Abkommen, eine Vereinbarung
- 3eine Zusammenkunft, Versammlung, Sitzung, Tagung
- 4gesellschaftliche oder gemeinschaftliche Sitte, Brauch, Regel oder Gewohnheit
- 5die diese Sitten, Bräuche und Gewohnheiten pflegende Gruppe oder Gemeinschaft
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kkonvention,knovention,konevntion,konnvention,konveniton,konvenntion,konventino,konventionn,konventoin,konventtion,konvetnion,konvnetion,konvvention,kovnention,oknvention
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Konvention
Misspelling Variants of "Konvention"
Frequency rank: #13,187 in German
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