advice

[ədˈvaɪs]

/[ədˈvaɪs]/ noun

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The verdict

“advice” is uncommon German (frequency #67,962 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,962
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meldung, Anzeige, Avis

Corpus desk

Index DE-advice · advice · German

advice · rank #67,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,962
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH Adlern

Nearest frequency peer: Adlern (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „advice“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „advice“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for advice
PropertyValue
Headwordadvice
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ədˈvaɪs]
Letters6
Frequency rank#67,962
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „advice“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).advicefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Adlern“ (#67,961), „adios“ (#67,960), „Aikido“ (#67,964). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „advice“ bei #67,962. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

advice is uncommon German at frequency #67,962 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ədˈvaɪs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

advice doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 German form is advice, spelled A-D-V-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Meldung, Anzeige, Avis
  2. 2
    Rat, Ratschlag

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how advice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes drove with me to the station and gave me his last parting injunctions and advice."

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "advice"?
"advice" is spelled A-D-V-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ədˈvaɪs].
What does "advice" mean?
As a noun, "advice" means: Meldung, Anzeige, Avis
How do you pronounce "advice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "advice" is [ədˈvaɪs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "advice" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "advice", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Adlern#67,961Aikido#67,964actual#67,958Allens#67,967

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list