Sondierung
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#92,230
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Sondierung is aGermannoun. It means: systematische Erfassung von Gewässertiefen Pronounced [zɔnˈdiːʁʊŋ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sondierung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zɔnˈdiːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sondierung is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zɔnˈdiːʁʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #92,230 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Sondierung in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Sondierung, spelled S-O-N-D-I-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
- 1systematische Erfassung von Gewässertiefen
- 2Einsatz einer Sonde für allfällige Untersuchungen (von Organen oder Geweben)
- 3Einsatz einer Sonde für spezielle Zwecke, zum Beispiel Untersuchung der Boden- oder Untergrundbeschaffenheit, aber auch Einsatz einer Lawinensonde zur Suche nach Verschütteten
- 4Gespräch, um Situationen und Meinungen in Erfahrung zu bringen
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #92,230 in German
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