umfassen
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,643
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
umfassen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas umgreifen, umfangen, umgeben Pronounced [ʊmˈfasn̩]. It ranks #8,643 in German word frequency. Often confused with umfasst and umfasste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umfassen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʊmˈfasn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for umfassen is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʊmˈfasn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,643 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for umfassen, with forms such as "mufassen", "ufmassen", and "umafssen". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "umfasst", "umfasste", "Umrissen", 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 umfassen, spelled U-M-F-A-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas umgreifen, umfangen, umgeben
- 2etwas einschliessen, beinhalten, enthalten
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mufassen,ufmassen,umafssen,umfasen,umfasesn,umfassenn,umfassne,umfaßen,umffassen,umfsasen,ummfassen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for umfassen
Misspelling Variants of "umfassen"
Frequency rank: #8,643 in German
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