Alpen
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,056
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Alpen is aGermanname. It means: ein mitteleuropäisches Gebirge, an dem Deutschland, Österreich, die Schweiz, Liechtenstein, Slowenien, Italien und Frankreich Anteil haben; das höchste und nach Ausdehnung größte Gebirge Europas Pronounced [ˈalpn̩]. It ranks #5,056 in German word frequency. Often confused with ALTE and amen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alpen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [ˈalpn̩] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Alpen is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalpn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,056 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Alpen, with forms such as "alepn", "allpen", and "alpenn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ALTE", "amen", "apex", and more, 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 Alpen, spelled A-L-P-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein mitteleuropäisches Gebirge, an dem Deutschland, Österreich, die Schweiz, Liechtenstein, Slowenien, Italien und Frankreich Anteil haben; das höchste und nach Ausdehnung größte Gebirge Europas
- 2eine Bezeichnung für andere relativ lange und hohe Gebirgszüge
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alepn,allpen,alpenn,alpne,alppen,aplen,lapen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Alpen
Misspelling Variants of "Alpen"
Frequency rank: #5,056 in German
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