Ambulanz
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,463
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Ambulanz is aGermannoun. It means: Krankentransportwagen Pronounced [ambuˈlant͡s]. Often confused with ambulant and ambulante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ambulanz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ambuˈlant͡s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ambulanz is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ambuˈlant͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,463 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Ambulanz, with forms such as "abmulanz", "ambbulanz", and "ambluanz". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ambulant", "ambulante", 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 Ambulanz, spelled A-M-B-U-L-A-N-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Krankentransportwagen
- 2Kurzbezeichnung für ambulante, das heißt nicht stationäre Behandlung (der Patient bleibt nicht über Nacht im Haus, mit der Ausnahmen des Behandlungsbereich für Notfälle, in der Regel der »Notfallstation«)
- 3ambulante Sprechstunde von Ärzten in Krankenhäusern für auswärtige Patienten.
- 4Poliklinik (ohne einen stationären Teil - den »Bettentrakt« oder »Station«)
- 5Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abmulanz,ambbulanz,ambluanz,ambualnz,ambulannz,ambulanzz,ambulazn,ambullanz,ambulnaz,ammbulanz,amublanz,mabulanz
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Misspelling Variants of "Ambulanz"
Frequency rank: #29,463 in German
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