Zündung
[ˈt͡sʏndʊŋ]
The verdict
“Zündung” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,587. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,587
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initiierung einer chemischen Reaktion durch Zuführung von Energie in geeigneter Form (zum Beispiel in Form von Wärme oder Licht) beim Starten eines Verbrennungsmotors oder der Auslösung einer Spren...
Corpus desk
Index DE-zundung · Zündung · German
Zündung · rank #27,587 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,587
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zwischenstopp
Nearest frequency peer: Zwischenstopp (-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 „Zündung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- zugewandt
zugewandt
72,417 corpus weight
- zumute
zumute
72,416 corpus weight
- Zwischensto…
Zwischenstopp
72,415 corpus weight
- Zündung
Zündung
72,414 corpus weight
- überflüssige
überflüssige
72,413 corpus weight
- überglückli…
überglücklich
72,412 corpus weight
What this shows „Zündung“ 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 | Zündung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡sʏndʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Zündung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Zündung (IPA [ˈt͡sʏndʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,587 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Zündung, with forms such as "znüdung", "zzündung", and "züdnung". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Zuwendung", "zünden", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Zündung, spelled Z-Ü-N-D-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Initiierung einer chemischen Reaktion durch Zuführung von Energie in geeigneter Form (zum Beispiel in Form von Wärme oder Licht) beim Starten eines Verbrennungsmotors oder der Auslösung einer Sprengung
- 2Bezeichnung für den Zündapparat eines Fahrzeug-Motors
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zündung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Verbrennung des Kraftstoff-Luft-Gemischs im Verbrennungsmotor wird durch die Zündung initiiert.
An diesem Fahrzeug gibt es ein Problem mit der Zündung.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- znüdung
- zzündung
- züdnung
- zünddung
- zündnug
- zündugn
- zündungg
- zündunng
- zünndung
- zünudng
- üzndung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Zündung - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Zündung", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).