messenger
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,875
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
messenger is aGermannoun. It means: Person, die Nachrichten überbringt Pronounced […]. Often confused with Messner and Messungen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | messenger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for messenger is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,875 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for messenger, with forms such as "emssenger", "mesenger", and "mesesnger". 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, "Messner", "Messungen", "of", 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 messenger, spelled M-E-S-S-E-N-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Person, die Nachrichten überbringt
- 2Leine, mit der Trossen beispielsweise von einem Schiffsdeck an ein Pier gezogen werden
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emssenger,mesenger,mesesnger,messegner,messenegr,messengerr,messengger,messengre,messennger,messneger,meßenger,mmessenger,msesenger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for messenger
Misspelling Variants of "messenger"
Frequency rank: #14,875 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our German index: