release
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,769
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
release is aGermannoun. It means: etwas, das gerade veröffentlicht oder (zum Verkauf) verfügbar gemacht wurde Pronounced [ɹɪˈliːs]. It ranks #8,769 in German word frequency. Often confused with Reverse and released.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | release |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɹɪˈliːs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for release is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɹɪˈliːs]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,769 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for release, with forms such as "erlease", "reelase", and "relaese". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Reverse", "released", "reese", 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 release, spelled R-E-L-E-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas, das gerade veröffentlicht oder (zum Verkauf) verfügbar gemacht wurde
- 2eine Softwareversion
- 3etwas, das befreit, frei- oder gehengelassen wurde
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erlease,reelase,relaese,releaes,releasse,relesae,rellease,rleease,rrelease
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for release
Misspelling Variants of "release"
Frequency rank: #8,769 in German
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