Orientierung
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,638
in German word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Orientierung is aGermannoun. It means: das Sich-zurecht-Finden im Raum, zum Beispiel im Gelände, in Bauwerken, in Städten Pronounced [oʁiɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ]. It ranks #5,638 in German word frequency. Often confused with orientieren.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Orientierung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oʁiɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Orientierung is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oʁiɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,638 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for Orientierung, with forms such as "oirentierung", "oreinteirung", and "oreintierung". 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, "orientieren", 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 Orientierung, spelled O-R-I-E-N-T-I-E-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 Sich-zurecht-Finden im Raum, zum Beispiel im Gelände, in Bauwerken, in Städten
- 2das Sich-zurecht-Finden der eigenen Person in Raum und Zeit, das Sich-Verschaffen eines Überblickes, auch in unübersichtlichen Situationen, die grundlegende Bedingung für Handlungsfähigkeit
- 3Haltung, Einstellung, Ausrichtung, zum Beispiel in politischen Fragen oder auch Fragen der Sexualität
- 4das Konzentrieren auf bestimmte Grundsätze und Ziele, gedanklich sich danach ausrichten, sich einen Leitfaden, eine Leitlinie zu eigen machen
- 5Information
- 6Ausrichtung einer Kirche
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oirentierung,oreinteirung,oreintierung,orieniterung,orienntierung,orienteirung,orientiernug,orientierrung,orientierugn,orientierungg,orientierunng,orientieurng,orientireung,orienttierung,orietnierung,orinetierung,orrientierung,roientierung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Orientierung
Misspelling Variants of "Orientierung"
Frequency rank: #5,638 in German
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Nearby German words
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