Amerika
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,011
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Amerika is aGermanname. It means: ein Doppelkontinent (der ehemals von der Namengebung her als ein Kontinent betrachtet wurde, wissenschaftlich wird in die Kontinente Nordamerika und Südamerika unterschieden) Pronounced [aˈmeːʁika]. It ranks #2,011 in German word frequency. Often confused with Amerikas and Afrika.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amerika |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [aˈmeːʁika] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Amerika is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈmeːʁika]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,011 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Amerika, with forms such as "aemrika", "ameirka", and "ameriak". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Amerikas", "Afrika", "Amelia", 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 Amerika, spelled A-M-E-R-I-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein Doppelkontinent (der ehemals von der Namengebung her als ein Kontinent betrachtet wurde, wissenschaftlich wird in die Kontinente Nordamerika und Südamerika unterschieden)
- 2Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 3Ortsteil der Stadt Penig, Landkreis Mittelsachsen, Sachsen, Deutschland
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aemrika,ameirka,ameriak,amerikka,amerkia,amerrika,ammerika,amreika,maerika
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Amerika
Misspelling Variants of "Amerika"
Frequency rank: #2,011 in German
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