Mobbing
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,483
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
Mobbing is aGermannoun. It means: Psychoterror mit dem Ziel, den Betroffenen zur Aufgabe seines Arbeitsplatzes zu bewegen Pronounced [ˈmɔbɪŋ]. Often confused with moving and morning.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mobbing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɔbɪŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Mobbing is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmɔbɪŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,483 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Mobbing, with forms such as "mbobing", "mmobbing", and "mobbign". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "moving", "morning", "Mödling", 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 Mobbing, spelled M-O-B-B-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Psychoterror mit dem Ziel, den Betroffenen zur Aufgabe seines Arbeitsplatzes zu bewegen
- 2ständige Schikane, Quälerei und Verletzung eines Kollegen (Schule, Arbeitsplatz, Verein,…)
- 3gemeinsamer Angriff mehrerer Tiere gegen einen überlegenen Feind
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mbobing,mmobbing,mobbign,mobbingg,mobbinng,mobbnig,mobibng,mobing,ombbing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Mobbing"
Frequency rank: #11,483 in German
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