Album
[ˈalbʊm]
The verdict
“Album” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #1,500 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,500
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Behältnis, ursprünglich in Buchform, das mehrere Sammelobjekte enthalten kann
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Album |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈalbʊm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Album” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Album is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalbʊm]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,500 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Album, with forms such as "ablum", "albbum", and "albmu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "alm", "Alu", "allem", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Album, spelled A-L-B-U-M.
Definition
- 1Behältnis, ursprünglich in Buchform, das mehrere Sammelobjekte enthalten kann
- 2Zusammenstellung mehrerer Musikstücke eines Interpreten
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ablum,albbum,albmu,albumm,allbum,alubm,labum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Album - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “Album”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-L-B-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈalbʊm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “alm” - see the side-by-side comparison. Album vs alm
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.