Wendung
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,604
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
Wendung is aGermannoun. It means: feste Verbindung von zwei oder mehr Wörtern, deren Gesamtbedeutung sich nicht mehr aus den Bedeutungen der einzelnen Komponenten ergibt, sondern eine Übertragung erfahren hat Pronounced [ˈvɛndʊŋ]. Often confused with Werbung and Wertung.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wendung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛndʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wendung is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɛndʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,604 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 Wendung, with forms such as "ewndung", "wednung", and "wenddung". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Werbung", "Wertung", "Wendungen", 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 Wendung, spelled W-E-N-D-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1feste Verbindung von zwei oder mehr Wörtern, deren Gesamtbedeutung sich nicht mehr aus den Bedeutungen der einzelnen Komponenten ergibt, sondern eine Übertragung erfahren hat
- 2Veränderung
- 3Biegung oder Kurve
- 4sich in eine andere Richtung drehen, Drehen oder Umdrehen eines Gegenstands
- 5Veränderung der Kindslage, um damit die Geburt zu ermöglichen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ewndung,wednung,wenddung,wendnug,wendugn,wendungg,wendunng,wenndung,wenudng,wnedung,wwendung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Wendung
Misspelling Variants of "Wendung"
Frequency rank: #16,604 in German
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