Migration

/[miɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,980

in German word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Migration is aGermannoun. It means: Wanderung von Menschen oder ganzen Volksgruppen Pronounced [miɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]. It ranks #5,980 in German word frequency.

Key facts for Migration
PropertyValue
HeadwordMigration
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[miɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]
Letters9
Frequency rank#5,980
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Migration in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Migration is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [miɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,980 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 Migration, with forms such as "imgration", "mgiration", and "migartion". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Migration, spelled M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Wanderung von Menschen oder ganzen Volksgruppen
  2. 2
    Tierwanderung, Vogelzug
  3. 3
    Stoffwanderung durch poröses Gestein
  4. 4
    Stoffwanderung im Körper oder innerhalb von Zellen
  5. 5
    Migration von Daten von einer Anwendung, einem Betriebssystem oder Version zu einer/einem anderen

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imgration,mgiration,migartion,miggration,migraiton,migratino,migrationn,migratoin,migrattion,migrration,migrtaion,mirgation,mmigration

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Migration

Misspelling Variants of "Migration"

imgration9mgiration9migartion9miggration10migraiton9migratino9migrationn10migratoin9
Misspelling Variants of "Migration"

Frequency rank: #5,980 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Migration"?
"Migration" is spelled M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [miɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn].
What does "Migration" mean?
As a noun, "Migration" means: Wanderung von Menschen oder ganzen Volksgruppen
What are common misspellings of "Migration"?
Common misspellings include "imgration", "mgiration", "migartion", "miggration", "migraiton". The correct spelling is "Migration".
How do you pronounce "Migration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Migration" is [miɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Migration" come from?
"Migration" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.