an Stelle
[anˈʃtɛlə]
The verdict
“an Stelle” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - stellvertretend für
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | an Stelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [anˈʃtɛlə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “an Stelle” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for an Stelle is 9 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [anˈʃtɛlə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "stellvertretend für".
Zero misspellings are on record for an Stelle in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is an Stelle, spelled A-N- -S-T-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1stellvertretend für
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “an Stelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-N- -S-T-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.