System
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#677
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
System is aGermannoun. It means: eine sich abgrenzende/nicht-abgrenzende, auf kausaler/nicht-kausaler Ebene korrelierende Struktur, die eine Gesamtheit beziehungsweise eine finite/infinite „Menge“ von Objekten einbezieht; ein defi... Pronounced [zʏsˈteːm]. It ranks #677 in German word frequency. Often confused with Systems and Systemen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | System |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zʏsˈteːm] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for System is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zʏsˈteːm]. Corpus data places it at rank #677 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for System, with forms such as "ssystem", "ssytem", and "sysetm". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Systems", "Systemen", "sister", 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 System, spelled S-Y-S-T-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine sich abgrenzende/nicht-abgrenzende, auf kausaler/nicht-kausaler Ebene korrelierende Struktur, die eine Gesamtheit beziehungsweise eine finite/infinite „Menge“ von Objekten einbezieht; ein definiertes Prinzip, das einer bestimmten Ordnung zugrunde liegt
- 2Gefüge, in sich zusammenhängende Gesamtheit mit einer bestimmten inneren Ordnung
- 3wissenschaftliches Schema mit sämtlichen Aussagen
- 4staatliche, wirtschaftliche, gesellschaftliche Organisation oder Regierungsform, die den verfassungsrechtlichen Bestimmungen des Staates entspricht
- 5Menge von Elementen, zwischen denen Beziehungen bestehen oder die nach bestimmten Regeln verwendet werden müssen/können
- 6Zusammenfassung in (Tier-, Pflanzen-) Gruppen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ssystem,ssytem,sysetm,sysstem,systemm,systme,systtem,sytsem,syystem,ysstem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for System
Misspelling Variants of "System"
Frequency rank: #677 in German
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