Sicherung
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,648
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Sicherung is aGermannoun. It means: Bauteil, das bei zu hohen Strömen den Stromkreis unterbricht, um Folgeschäden zu vermeiden Pronounced [ˈzɪçəʁʊŋ]. It ranks #5,648 in German word frequency. Often confused with Sichtung and Speicherung.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sicherung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɪçəʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sicherung is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzɪçəʁʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,648 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sicherung, with forms such as "ischerung", "sciherung", and "siccherung". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Sichtung", "Speicherung", "Sicherungen", 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 Sicherung, spelled S-I-C-H-E-R-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bauteil, das bei zu hohen Strömen den Stromkreis unterbricht, um Folgeschäden zu vermeiden
- 2meist technische Vorrichtung, welche Unfälle oder andere negative Ereignisse verhindern helfen soll
- 3Aufgabe/Vorgang des (Ab-)Sicherns eines oder mehrerer Bergsteiger
- 4Bewahrung, Sicherstellung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ischerung,sciherung,siccherung,sicehrung,sichernug,sicherrung,sicherugn,sicherungg,sicherunng,sicheurng,sichherung,sichreung,sihcerung,ssicherung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Sicherung
Misspelling Variants of "Sicherung"
Frequency rank: #5,648 in German
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