Ventil
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,418
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Ventil is aGermannoun. It means: mechanische oder von Hand gesteuerte, absperrbare Einlass-, Anlass- oder Durchtrittsvorrichtung für Gase und Flüssigkeiten Pronounced [vɛnˈtiːl]. Often confused with Vettel and Ventile.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ventil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vɛnˈtiːl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ventil is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɛnˈtiːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,418 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Ventil, with forms such as "evntil", "venitl", and "venntil". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Vettel", "Ventile", 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 Ventil, spelled V-E-N-T-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mechanische oder von Hand gesteuerte, absperrbare Einlass-, Anlass- oder Durchtrittsvorrichtung für Gase und Flüssigkeiten
- 2mechanische Vorrichtung an Blechblasinstrumenten
- 3Mechanismus an der Orgel zur Regulierung des Luftstroms
- 4etwas, das psychischen Druck/psychische Belastung verringert oder entfernt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evntil,venitl,venntil,ventill,ventli,venttil,vetnil,vnetil,vventil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Ventil
Misspelling Variants of "Ventil"
Frequency rank: #18,418 in German
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