transmission
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The verdict
“transmission” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #42,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,188
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Getriebe, Übersetzungsgetriebe
Corpus desk
Index DE-transmission · transmission · German
transmission · rank #42,188 · 18 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,188
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH trauernde
Nearest frequency peer: trauernde (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „transmission“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Totem
Totem
57,816 corpus weight
- tout
tout
57,815 corpus weight
- transmission
transmission
57,813 corpus weight
- trauernde
trauernde
57,812 corpus weight
- trenne
trenne
57,811 corpus weight
- tribune
tribune
57,810 corpus weight
What this shows „transmission“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transmission |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #42,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „transmission“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around transmission (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,188 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for transmission, with forms such as "rtansmission", "tarnsmission", and "tranmsission". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "video", "Trump", "user", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is transmission, spelled T-R-A-N-S-M-I-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Getriebe, Übersetzungsgetriebe
- 2Bildübertragung, Ausstrahlung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how transmission appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I'm not familiar with driving a manual transmission car. Because of this, I only buy cars with an automatic transmission.
Because of bad weather the transmission broke of several times last evening.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtansmission
- tarnsmission
- tranmsission
- trannsmission
- transimssion
- transmision
- transmisison
- transmissino
- transmissionn
- transmissoin
- transmißion
- transmmission
- transmsision
- transsmission
- trasnmission
- trnasmission
- trransmission
- ttransmission
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of transmission - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "transmission", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).