Achse
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,432
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
Achse is aGermannoun. It means: lotrechte oder waagerechte Gerade oder Linie, die unveränderlich ist, und eine Mittellinie, um die sich ein Körper dreht; gedachte Gerade mit besonderen Symmetrie-Eigenschaften Pronounced [ˈaksə]. It ranks #7,432 in German word frequency. Often confused with AHS and acht.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Achse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaksə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Achse is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaksə]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,432 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Achse, with forms such as "acchse", "aches", and "achhse". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "AHS", "acht", "ADHS", 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 Achse, spelled A-C-H-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1lotrechte oder waagerechte Gerade oder Linie, die unveränderlich ist, und eine Mittellinie, um die sich ein Körper dreht; gedachte Gerade mit besonderen Symmetrie-Eigenschaften
- 2Verbindung rotierender Körper, die kein Drehmoment überträgt; Teil, das zwei nebeneinanderliegende Räder eines Wagens miteinander verbindet oder auch allgemeiner Maschinenteil
- 3senkrechte oder waagerechte Gerade oder Linie, die unveränderlich ist
- 4kurz für Sprossachse
- 5Allianz, Staatenbund oder Partnerschaft; meist durch die Nennung der Hauptstädte ergänzt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acchse,aches,achhse,achsse,ahcse,cahse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Achse
Misspelling Variants of "Achse"
Frequency rank: #7,432 in German
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