Albe
Letters
4 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Albe is aGermannoun. It means: knöchellanges, weißes Gewand, das insbesondere katholische Geistliche unter dem Messgewand tragen, aber auch andere, die im Gottesdienst eine besondere Aufgabe erfüllen Pronounced [ˈalbə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Albe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈalbə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Albe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalbə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "knöchellanges, weißes Gewand, das insbesondere katholische Geistliche unter dem Messgewand tragen, aber auch andere, die im Gottesdienst eine besondere Aufgabe erfüllen".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Albe 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 Albe, spelled A-L-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1knöchellanges, weißes Gewand, das insbesondere katholische Geistliche unter dem Messgewand tragen, aber auch andere, die im Gottesdienst eine besondere Aufgabe erfüllen
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