Amt
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,279
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Amt is aGermannoun. It means: eine mit Würde und Verantwortung verbundene offizielle (staatliche) Stellung Pronounced [amt]. It ranks #1,279 in German word frequency. Often confused with an and at.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [amt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Amt is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [amt]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,279 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Amt in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "at", "as", 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 Amt, spelled A-M-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine mit Würde und Verantwortung verbundene offizielle (staatliche) Stellung
- 2eine mit Würde und Verantwortung verbundene offizielle (staatliche) Stellung
- 3eine mit Würde und Verantwortung verbundene offizielle (staatliche) Stellung
- 4eine mit Würde und Verantwortung verbundene offizielle (staatliche) Stellung
- 5eine freiwillige und ohne Bezahlung ausgeübte Tätigkeit
- 6öffentliche Dienststelle
- 7landschaftlich historische untere territoriale Einheit, auch Amtsbezirk
- 8eine feierliche Heilige Messe in der römisch-katholischen Kirche, Hochamt
- 9eine Zunft
- 10Verbindung zum öffentlichen Telefonnetz
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #1,279 in German
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