Motivation
[motivaˈt͡si̯oːn]
The verdict
“Motivation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #3,834. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,834
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Wille, ein Ziel zu erreichen
Corpus desk
Index DE-motivation · Motivation · German
Motivation · rank #3,834 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,834
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH mitnehmen
Nearest frequency peer: mitnehmen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Motivation“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Mathematik
Mathematik
96,170 corpus weight
- Mercedes
Mercedes
96,169 corpus weight
- mitnehmen
mitnehmen
96,168 corpus weight
- Motivation
Motivation
96,167 corpus weight
- natürliche
natürliche
96,166 corpus weight
- net
net
96,165 corpus weight
What this shows „Motivation“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Motivation |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [motivaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Motivation“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Motivation (IPA [motivaˈt͡si̯oːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,834 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Motivation, with forms such as "mmotivation", "moitvation", and "motiavtion". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Motivation, spelled M-O-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1der Wille, ein Ziel zu erreichen
- 2Prozess und Ergebnis eines Vorgangs, der dazu führt, dass die Bedeutung sprachlicher Ausdrücke sich aus der Bedeutung ihrer Bestandteile herleiten lässt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Motivation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dazu fehlt mir die Motivation.
„Symptomatisch für diese gipfelbezogene Erlebnisweise des Höhenbergsteigens ist die Motivationskurve, die sich in zahlreichen, von mir geführten Interviews sinngleich wie in den folgenden Aussagen offenbart: Wenn ich einen Gipfel erreicht habe, sinkt meine Motivation rapide ab […].“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotivation
- moitvation
- motiavtion
- motivaiton
- motivatino
- motivationn
- motivatoin
- motivattion
- motivtaion
- motivvation
- mottivation
- motviation
- mtoivation
- omtivation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Motivation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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