Apanage
[apaˈnaːʒə]
The verdict
“Apanage” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abfindung der nichtregierenden Mitglieder eines Adelsgeschlechts mit Landbesitz, Einkünften aus Liegenschaften oder Geldzahlungen zur Ermöglichung eines standesgemäßen Lebenswandels
Corpus desk
Index DE-apanage · Apanage · German
Apanage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apanage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [apaˈnaːʒə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Apanage“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Apanage is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [apaˈnaːʒə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Apanage in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Apanage, spelled A-P-A-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Abfindung der nichtregierenden Mitglieder eines Adelsgeschlechts mit Landbesitz, Einkünften aus Liegenschaften oder Geldzahlungen zur Ermöglichung eines standesgemäßen Lebenswandels
- 2regelmäßige finanzielle Zuwendung in größerem Stil
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Apanage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Baron bliebe natürlich in voller Freiheit wohnen, nur mit beschränkten Vermögensrechten und einer festen Apanage.“
„Im Fürstentum Monaco befand sich eine französische Garnison, und der Prinz erhielt dafür eine Apanage von hunderttausend Francs.“
This word in other languages
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.