reason
[ˈɹiːzən]
The verdict
“reason” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,402. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,402
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das, wodurch die Richtigkeit von etwas gerechtfertigt ist bzw. erklärt oder widerlegt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-reason · reason · German
reason · rank #35,402 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,402
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Razzien
Nearest frequency peer: Razzien (-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 „reason“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Randalierer
Randalierer
64,602 corpus weight
- ratifiziert
ratifiziert
64,601 corpus weight
- Razzien
Razzien
64,600 corpus weight
- reason
reason
64,599 corpus weight
- Rechtsvorsc…
Rechtsvorschriften
64,598 corpus weight
- Redewendung…
Redewendungen
64,597 corpus weight
What this shows „reason“ 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 | reason |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɹiːzən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „reason“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around reason (IPA [ˈɹiːzən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,402 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for reason, with forms such as "erason", "raeson", and "reaosn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Region", "reisen", "Rasen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is reason, spelled R-E-A-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1das, wodurch die Richtigkeit von etwas gerechtfertigt ist bzw. erklärt oder widerlegt wird
- 2das geistige Vermögen, womit ein Mensch die aufgenommenen Gegenstände in sich verarbeitet, d. h. Zusammenhänge zu erkennen, zu beurteilen, zu überschauen und sich dementsprechend sinnvoll und zweckmäßig zu verhalten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reason appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"It was with this accommodating spirit towards Alexius, which, for many different and complicated reasons, had now animated most of the crusaders, that the chiefs consented to a measure which, in other circumstances, they would probably have refused, as undue to the Greeks, and dishonourable to themselves. "
In our reason, subjectively considered as a faculty of human cognition, there exist fundamental rules and maxims of its exercise, which have completely the appearance of objective principles. Now from this cause it happens that the subjective necessity of a certain connection of our conceptions, is regarded as an objective necessity of the determination o…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erason
- raeson
- reaosn
- reasno
- reasonn
- reasson
- resaon
- rreason
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reason - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).