schwingen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,517
in German word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
schwingen is aGermanverb. It means: sich hin und her oder kreisend bewegen Pronounced [ˈʃvɪŋən]. Often confused with schwingt and schwitzen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwingen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃvɪŋən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schwingen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃvɪŋən]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,517 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for schwingen, with forms such as "cshwingen", "scchwingen", and "schhwingen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "schwingt", "schwitzen", "schwirren", 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 schwingen, spelled S-C-H-W-I-N-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich hin und her oder kreisend bewegen
- 2etwas hin und her oder kreisend bewegen
- 3sich mit Schwung auf etwas setzen
- 4etwas mit Schwung zu einem bestimmten Ziel befördern
- 5sich rhythmisch wellenförmig bewegen
- 6in einem Bogen verlaufen
- 7sich bogenförmig bewegen, zum Beispiel beim Ski fahren oder Boxen
- 8faserige Pflanzen durch Bewegung von Holzteilen befreien
- 9ringen, mit den besonderen Regeln des Schwingens
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshwingen,scchwingen,schhwingen,schiwngen,schwignen,schwinegn,schwingenn,schwinggen,schwingne,schwinngen,schwnigen,schwwingen,scwhingen,shcwingen,sschwingen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for schwingen
Misspelling Variants of "schwingen"
Frequency rank: #11,517 in German
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Nearby German words
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