Religion
[ʁeliˈɡi̯oːn]
The verdict
“Religion” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,676
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kodifizierte und/oder auf Überlieferung beruhende Kult-/Glaubenspraxis und -auslegung
Corpus desk
Index DE-religion · Religion · German
Religion · rank #1,676 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,676
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Produkte
Nearest frequency peer: Produkte (-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 „Religion“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Museum
Museum
98,328 corpus weight
- nehme
nehme
98,327 corpus weight
- Produkte
Produkte
98,326 corpus weight
- Religion
Religion
98,325 corpus weight
- roten
roten
98,324 corpus weight
- stärker
stärker
98,323 corpus weight
What this shows „Religion“ 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 | Religion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁeliˈɡi̯oːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Religion“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Religion (IPA [ʁeliˈɡi̯oːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,676 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Religion, with forms such as "erligion", "reilgion", and "relgiion". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Revision", "religiös", "religiöse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Religion, spelled R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1kodifizierte und/oder auf Überlieferung beruhende Kult-/Glaubenspraxis und -auslegung
- 2Glaubenssystem mit metaphysischem oder transzendenten Inhalt (meist als Grundlage des Weltverständnisses und der Ethik)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Religion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wer heute von Religion oder Religionslehre spricht, kann dies nicht naiv-unbedacht tun. … Denn das Wort Religion scheint als Begriff in Mißkredit geraten zu sein. Will man es jedoch bei der Diskreditierung des Wortes Religion nicht bewenden lassen, wird man den Begriffsschwierigkeiten dieses Wortes nachgehen und eine philosophisch-theologische Begründung…
„Es war die Resignation eines Volkes, das durch die Jahrtausende von der eigenen Religion, durch Jahrhunderte von fremder Herrschaft entmündigt worden war.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erligion
- reilgion
- relgiion
- religgion
- religino
- religionn
- religoin
- reliigon
- relligion
- rleigion
- rreligion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Religion - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Religion", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).