Apis mellifera
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The verdict
“Apis mellifera” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wissenschaftlicher Name für eine Art aus der Familie der Honigbienen (Apis)
Corpus desk
Index DE-apis-mellifera · Apis mellifera · German
Apis mellifera · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | Apis mellifera |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Apis mellifera“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Apis mellifera is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "wissenschaftlicher Name für eine Art aus der Familie der Honigbienen (Apis)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Apis mellifera, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 Apis mellifera, spelled A-P-I-S- -M-E-L-L-I-F-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1wissenschaftlicher Name für eine Art aus der Familie der Honigbienen (Apis)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Apis mellifera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mit ihrem Rüssel saugt Apis mellifera Nektar aus der Blüte.“
Synonyms
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.