Alexandria
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,602
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Alexandria is aGermanname. It means: Hafenstadt im Norden Ägyptens Pronounced [alɛˈksandʁia]. Often confused with Alexandra and Alexandre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alexandria |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [alɛˈksandʁia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Alexandria is 10 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alɛˈksandʁia]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,602 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alexandria, with forms such as "aelxandria", "aleaxndria", and "alexadnria". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Alexandra", "Alexandre", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Alexandria, spelled A-L-E-X-A-N-D-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hafenstadt im Norden Ägyptens
- 2Hauptstadt des Kreises Teleorman in Rumänien
- 3Stadt in den USA in Virginia am Potomac River
- 4Stadt in den USA in Louisiana am Red River
- 5Stadt im Westen Schottlands
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aelxandria,aleaxndria,alexadnria,alexanddria,alexandira,alexandrai,alexandrria,alexanndria,alexanrdia,alexnadria,alexxandria,allexandria,alxeandria,laexandria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Alexandria
Misspelling Variants of "Alexandria"
Frequency rank: #24,602 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our German index: