Album
[ˈalbʊm]
The verdict
“Album” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,500
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Behältnis, ursprünglich in Buchform, das mehrere Sammelobjekte enthalten kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-album · Album · German
Album · rank #1,500 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,500
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH zählt
Nearest frequency peer: zählt (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Album”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wiederum
wiederum
98,504 corpus weight
- zugleich
zugleich
98,503 corpus weight
- zählt
zählt
98,502 corpus weight
- Album
Album
98,501 corpus weight
- allgemein
allgemein
98,500 corpus weight
- bestimmte
bestimmte
98,499 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Album” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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) |
Wo “Album” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Album (IPA [ˈalbʊm]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,500 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Album appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich zeige dir gerne die Urlaubsbilder, ich hole schnell das Album.
„Da die Feldpost zensiert wurde, wussten wir, dass viele ihren Familien in Deutschland diese Fotos schickten, einige sogar in Gestalt kleiner Alben, mit Bildunterschriften geschmückt…“
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Album", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Album". Here's where to go from here.
- "Album" maps to 11 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "alm". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,500 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.