Pokémon

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Pokémon is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpokemon]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,969 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "von Satoshi Tajiri und Game Freak entwickelte Fantasiewesen, die namensgebend für mehrere Videospiele, mehrere Fernsehserien, mehrere Kinofilme, ein Sammelkartenspiel und andere Produkte sind".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pokémon, with forms such as "opkémon", "pkoémon", and "pokkémon". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pokern", 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 Pokémon, spelled P-O-K-É-M-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.