reinigen
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,796
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
reinigen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas von Schmutz befreien, eine Verunreinigung beseitigen Pronounced [ˈʁaɪ̯nɪɡn̩]. It ranks #9,796 in German word frequency. Often confused with Ringen and reinigt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reinigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʁaɪ̯nɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for reinigen is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁaɪ̯nɪɡn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,796 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for reinigen, with forms such as "erinigen", "reiingen", and "reingien". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Ringen", "reinigt", "reinsten", and more, 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 reinigen, spelled R-E-I-N-I-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas von Schmutz befreien, eine Verunreinigung beseitigen
- 2speziell Textilien ohne Wasser reinigen^([1])
- 3etwas (Produkt, Rohstoff) veredeln, verbessern, verfeinern, von bestimmten unerwünschten Bestandteilen trennen, filtern
- 4einen Reinigungseid ablegen
- 5rainen, reinen, Raine anlegen, beseitigen, verlegen; Flure bereinigen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erinigen,reiingen,reingien,reiniegn,reinigenn,reiniggen,reinigne,reinnigen,reniigen,rienigen,rreinigen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reinigen
Misspelling Variants of "reinigen"
Frequency rank: #9,796 in German
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