Ahle

/[ˈaːlə]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#89,918

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Ahle is aGermannoun. It means: Werkzeug, mit dem man Löcher in derbe, feste Materialien, zum Beispiel Leder, machen kann Pronounced [ˈaːlə].

Key facts for Ahle
PropertyValue
HeadwordAhle
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈaːlə]
Letters4
Frequency rank#89,918
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Ahle in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Ahle is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaːlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #89,918 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Werkzeug, mit dem man Löcher in derbe, feste Materialien, zum Beispiel Leder, machen kann".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Ahle in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Ahle, spelled A-H-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Werkzeug, mit dem man Löcher in derbe, feste Materialien, zum Beispiel Leder, machen kann

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #89,918 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ahle"?
"Ahle" is spelled A-H-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈaːlə].
What does "Ahle" mean?
As a noun, "Ahle" means: Werkzeug, mit dem man Löcher in derbe, feste Materialien, zum Beispiel Leder, machen kann
How do you pronounce "Ahle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ahle" is [ˈaːlə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Ahle" come from?
"Ahle" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.