task
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,534
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
task is aGermannoun. It means: zu erledigende Arbeit; zugewiesener Auftrag; Problem, das man durch Anstrengung oder Nachdenken zu lösen versucht; Teil einer Übung oder Prüfungsarbeit: Aufgabe Pronounced [tɑːsk]. Often confused with Ts and TK.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | task |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tɑːsk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for task is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tɑːsk]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,534 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "zu erledigende Arbeit; zugewiesener Auftrag; Problem, das man durch Anstrengung oder Nachdenken zu lösen versucht; Teil einer Übung oder Prüfungsarbeit: Aufgabe".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for task, with forms such as "atsk", "taks", and "taskk". 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, "Ts", "TK", "Tat", 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 task, spelled T-A-S-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zu erledigende Arbeit; zugewiesener Auftrag; Problem, das man durch Anstrengung oder Nachdenken zu lösen versucht; Teil einer Übung oder Prüfungsarbeit: Aufgabe
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atsk,taks,taskk,tassk,tsak,ttask
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for task
Misspelling Variants of "task"
Frequency rank: #24,534 in German
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Other entries that begin with the letter T in our German index: