Ameise
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,011
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Ameise is aGermannoun. It means: staatenbildendes Insekt der Familie Formicidae Pronounced [ˈaːmaɪ̯zə]. Often confused with Anreise and Ameisen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ameise |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːmaɪ̯zə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ameise is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaːmaɪ̯zə]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,011 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ameise, with forms such as "aemise", "ameies", and "ameisse". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Anreise", "Ameisen", "Abreise", 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 Ameise, spelled A-M-E-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1staatenbildendes Insekt der Familie Formicidae
- 2Hubwagen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aemise,ameies,ameisse,amesie,amiese,ammeise,maeise
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Misspelling Variants of "Ameise"
Frequency rank: #41,011 in German
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