opinion
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,736
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
opinion is aGermannoun. It means: Anschauung, Meinung Pronounced [ɔ.pi.ɲɔ̃]. Often confused with Option.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opinion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔ.pi.ɲɔ̃] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for opinion is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔ.pi.ɲɔ̃]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,736 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Anschauung, Meinung".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for opinion, with forms such as "oipnion", "opiinon", and "opinino". 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, "Option", 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 opinion, spelled O-P-I-N-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anschauung, Meinung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oipnion,opiinon,opinino,opinionn,opinnion,opinoin,opniion,oppinion,poinion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for opinion
Misspelling Variants of "opinion"
Frequency rank: #40,736 in German
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