Offenbarung
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,140
in German word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Offenbarung is aGermannoun. It means: das Aufdecken oder Offenlegen eines Geheimnisses oder einer Absicht Pronounced [ˌɔfn̩ˈbaːʁʊŋ]. Often confused with offenbaren.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Offenbarung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌɔfn̩ˈbaːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Offenbarung is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌɔfn̩ˈbaːʁʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,140 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 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for Offenbarung, with forms such as "fofenbarung", "ofefnbarung", and "ofenbarung". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "offenbaren", 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 Offenbarung, spelled O-F-F-E-N-B-A-R-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Aufdecken oder Offenlegen eines Geheimnisses oder einer Absicht
- 2die Mitteilung göttlicher Wahrheiten oder eines göttlichen Willens auf übernatürlichem Wege
- 3Offenbarung des Johannes: das letzte Buch der Bibel
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fofenbarung,ofefnbarung,ofenbarung,offebnarung,offenabrung,offenbarnug,offenbarrung,offenbarugn,offenbarungg,offenbarunng,offenbaurng,offenbbarung,offenbraung,offennbarung,offnebarung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Offenbarung
Misspelling Variants of "Offenbarung"
Frequency rank: #14,140 in German
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Nearby German words
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