Zeitung
\ˈʦaɪ̯tʊŋ\
The verdict
“Zeitung” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,433
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Journal, dans le sens d'une feuille quotidienne ou périodique donnant les nouvelles, établie par un organe de presse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zeitung · Zeitung · French
Zeitung · rank #30,433 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,433
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH youtubeurs
Nearest frequency peer: youtubeurs (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Zeitung »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- while
while
69,571 corpus weight
- willow
willow
69,570 corpus weight
- youtubeurs
youtubeurs
69,569 corpus weight
- Zeitung
Zeitung
69,568 corpus weight
- zèbre
zèbre
69,567 corpus weight
- ébène
ébène
69,566 corpus weight
What this shows « Zeitung » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zeitung |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈʦaɪ̯tʊŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Zeitung »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Zeitung (IPA \ˈʦaɪ̯tʊŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,433 among 240 “Z” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Journal, dans le sens d'une feuille quotidienne ou périodique donnant les nouvelles, établie par un organe de presse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Zeitung, with forms such as "ezitung", "zeitnug", and "zeittung". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is Zeitung, spelled Z-E-I-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Journal, dans le sens d'une feuille quotidienne ou périodique donnant les nouvelles, établie par un organe de presse.
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.
Die Schwester kam. Der Kommissär ließ die anderen Zeitschriften hinaustragen. - «Die nicht?» fragte die Schwester und wies auf die Zeitung, die auf Bärlachs Bett lag. - «Nein, die nicht», sagte der Alte.
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 - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Zeitung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).