Wohnung

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Wohnung is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvoːnʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #728 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ein Raum oder mehrere Räume, die innerhalb eines Hauses einen abgeschlossenen Bereich bilden und für einen ein- oder mehrköpfigen Haushalt zum Wohnen dienen".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Wohnung, with forms such as "owhnung", "whonung", and "wohhnung". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Wohnungen", "wohnen", "Warnung", 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 Wohnung, spelled W-O-H-N-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.