Zwinger
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,584
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
Zwinger is aGermannoun. It means: Raum zwischen zwei Mauern einer Burg; in der Regel zwischen der Ringmauer der Kernburg und einer dieser vorgelagerten Mauer Pronounced [ˈt͡svɪŋɐ]. Often confused with zwingt and Zeiger.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zwinger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡svɪŋɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Zwinger is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡svɪŋɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,584 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Zwinger, with forms such as "wzinger", "ziwnger", and "zwigner". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "zwingt", "Zeiger", "zwänge", 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 Zwinger, spelled Z-W-I-N-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Raum zwischen zwei Mauern einer Burg; in der Regel zwischen der Ringmauer der Kernburg und einer dieser vorgelagerten Mauer
- 2eine Mehrzahl von Käfigen oder Gehegen für Tiere (in der Regel für Hunde)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: wzinger,ziwnger,zwigner,zwinegr,zwingerr,zwingger,zwingre,zwinnger,zwniger,zwwinger,zzwinger
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Misspelling Variants of "Zwinger"
Frequency rank: #35,584 in German
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