alce

/[ˈalt͡ʃe]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

alce is aGermannoun. It means: Elch, Elen, Elentier (Alces alces) Pronounced [ˈalt͡ʃe].

Key facts for alce
PropertyValue
Headwordalce
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈalt͡ʃe]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

alce is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for alce is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalt͡ʃe]. 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: "Elch, Elen, Elentier (Alces alces)".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for alce 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 alce, spelled A-L-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Elch, Elen, Elentier (Alces alces)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alce"?
"alce" is spelled A-L-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈalt͡ʃe].
What does "alce" mean?
As a noun, "alce" means: Elch, Elen, Elentier (Alces alces)
How do you pronounce "alce"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alce" is [ˈalt͡ʃe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alce" come from?
"alce" 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.