Allensche Regel
[ˈɛlənʃə ˈʁeːɡl̩]
The verdict
“Allensche Regel” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Zusammenhang, dass exponierte Körperteile wie Schwänze und Ohrmuscheln, die leicht auskühlen, bei gleichwarmen Tieren in kalten Gebieten meist kürzer ausgeprägt sind als bei nahe verwandten Arten o...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Allensche Regel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈɛlənʃə ˈʁeːɡl̩] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Allensche Regel” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Allensche Regel is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɛlənʃə ˈʁeːɡl̩]. 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: "Zusammenhang, dass exponierte Körperteile wie Schwänze und Ohrmuscheln, die leicht auskühlen, bei gleichwarmen Tieren in kalten Gebieten meist kürzer ausgeprägt sind als bei nahe verwandten Arten o...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Allensche Regel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 Allensche Regel, spelled A-L-L-E-N-S-C-H-E- -R-E-G-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zusammenhang, dass exponierte Körperteile wie Schwänze und Ohrmuscheln, die leicht auskühlen, bei gleichwarmen Tieren in kalten Gebieten meist kürzer ausgeprägt sind als bei nahe verwandten Arten oder Rassen in wärmeren Gegenden
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- The one correct German spelling is A-L-L-E-N-S-C-H-E- -R-E-G-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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