zocken
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,855
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
zocken is aGermanverb. It means: Glücksspiele machen; um Geld spielen Pronounced [ˈt͡sɔkn̩]. It ranks #7,855 in German word frequency. Often confused with zogen and Zonen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zocken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡sɔkn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for zocken is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡sɔkn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,855 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 zocken, with forms such as "ozcken", "zcoken", and "zoccken". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "zogen", "Zonen", "zockt", 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 zocken, spelled Z-O-C-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Glücksspiele machen; um Geld spielen
- 2riskante Börsengeschäfte betreiben
- 3hartnäckig, kleinlich (um etwas) handeln, verhandeln
- 4(vor allem bei Glücksspielen) risikofreudig agieren
- 5(ein Spiel, vor allem ein Computer- oder Konsolenspiel) spielen
- 6(ein Spiel, vor allem ein Kartenspiel) spielen
- 7für etwas den Gegenwert in Geld zahlen; (Geld oder dergleichen) als Gegenleistung geben
- 8Fußball spielen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ozcken,zcoken,zoccken,zocekn,zockenn,zockken,zockne,zokcen,zzocken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for zocken
Misspelling Variants of "zocken"
Frequency rank: #7,855 in German
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