Andorra la Vella
The verdict
“Andorra la Vella” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Andorras Hauptstadt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Andorra la Vella |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [anˈdɔʁa ɫa ˈveʎa] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Andorra la Vella” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Andorra la Vella is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [anˈdɔʁa ɫa ˈveʎa]. 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: "Andorras Hauptstadt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Andorra la Vella in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Andorra la Vella, spelled A-N-D-O-R-R-A- -L-A- -V-E-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Andorras Hauptstadt
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Using “Andorra la Vella”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-N-D-O-R-R-A- -L-A- -V-E-L-L-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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