Zeitung
[ˈt͡saɪ̯tʊŋ]
The verdict
“Zeitung” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #919. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #919
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gedrucktes, in kurzen und regelmäßigen Abständen herausgegebenes Nachrichtenmedium; veröffentlicht vor allem aktuelle Nachrichten
Corpus desk
Index DE-zeitung · Zeitung · German
Zeitung · rank #919 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #919
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH wenigstens
Nearest frequency peer: wenigstens (-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 „Zeitung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- unterwegs
unterwegs
99,085 corpus weight
- Verbindung
Verbindung
99,084 corpus weight
- wenigstens
wenigstens
99,083 corpus weight
- Zeitung
Zeitung
99,082 corpus weight
- zuvor
zuvor
99,081 corpus weight
- Ahnung
Ahnung
99,080 corpus weight
What this shows „Zeitung“ 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 | Zeitung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡saɪ̯tʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Zeitung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Zeitung (IPA [ˈt͡saɪ̯tʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #919 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Zeitung, with forms such as "ezitung", "zeitnug", and "zeittung". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Zeitungen", "Zeiten", "zeitig", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Zeitung, spelled Z-E-I-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1gedrucktes, in kurzen und regelmäßigen Abständen herausgegebenes Nachrichtenmedium; veröffentlicht vor allem aktuelle Nachrichten
- 2Nachricht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zeitung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich lese wenig Zeitung.
„Bevor wir aber losfuhren, schauten wir uns noch nach Zeitungen und Zeitschriften um.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ezitung
- zeitnug
- zeittung
- zeitugn
- zeitungg
- zeitunng
- zeiutng
- zetiung
- zietung
- zzeitung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Zeitung - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Zeitung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).