Alkoven
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#83,638
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Alkoven is aGermannoun. It means: (zumeist durch einen Vorhang) von einem größeren Raum (zumeist dem eigentlichen Schlafraum) abgegrenzte, fensterlose Nische beziehungsweise nischenartiger Nebenraum mit Schlafgelegenheit Pronounced [alˈkoːvn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alkoven |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alˈkoːvn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Alkoven is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alˈkoːvn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,638 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Alkoven 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 Alkoven, spelled A-L-K-O-V-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(zumeist durch einen Vorhang) von einem größeren Raum (zumeist dem eigentlichen Schlafraum) abgegrenzte, fensterlose Nische beziehungsweise nischenartiger Nebenraum mit Schlafgelegenheit
- 2(von einem größeren Raum abgehender) kleiner, fensterloser Nebenraum
- 3(in einem Lastkraftwagen, Wohnmobil oder dergleichen) hinter oder über dem Führerhaus befindlicher, abgeteilter Schlafbereich
- 4intimer, verschwiegener Ort (als heimlicher Treffpunkt von Paaren, Verliebten)
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #83,638 in German
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