observation
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The verdict
“observation” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,936
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beobachtung, Observation, Überwachung
Corpus desk
Index DE-observation · observation · German
observation · rank #49,936 · 16 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,936
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Oberbürgermei…
Nearest frequency peer: Oberbürgermeisterin (-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 „observation“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Nussknacker
Nussknacker
50,068 corpus weight
- Nutzungsrec…
Nutzungsrechte
50,067 corpus weight
- Oberbürgerm…
Oberbürgermeisterin
50,066 corpus weight
- observation
observation
50,065 corpus weight
- OGH
OGH
50,064 corpus weight
- Oktave
Oktave
50,063 corpus weight
What this shows „observation“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | observation |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #49,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „observation“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around observation (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,936 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Beobachtung, Observation, Überwachung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for observation, with forms such as "boservation", "obbservation", and "obesrvation". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "TO", "video", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 observation, spelled O-B-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Beobachtung, Observation, Überwachung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how observation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"If, as I proposed in my former paper, regular observations of atmospheric electricity should be made in the southern hemisphere leading to the same result, this supposition of mine would then be established as a fixed fact."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boservation
- obbservation
- obesrvation
- obseravtion
- obserrvation
- observaiton
- observatino
- observationn
- observatoin
- observattion
- observtaion
- observvation
- obsevration
- obsrevation
- obsservation
- osbervation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of observation - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "observation", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).