Sehnsucht

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The German entry for Sehnsucht is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzeːnˌzʊxt]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,878 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "der Drang, der Wunsch nach etwas".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sehnsucht, with forms such as "eshnsucht", "sehhnsucht", and "sehnnsucht". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Sehnsüchte", "sehnsüchtig", 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 Sehnsucht, spelled S-E-H-N-S-U-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.