zögern

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for zögern is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡søːɡɐn]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,785 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "etwas aufschieben, nicht sofort tun".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for zögern, with forms such as "zgöern", "zzögern", and "zöegrn". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Zorn", "Zügen", "Zonen", 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 zögern, spelled Z-Ö-G-E-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.