apocope
[əˈpɒkəˌpi]
The verdict
“apocope” 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) - Wegfall eines oder mehrerer Laute oder auch einer Silbe am Wortende
Corpus desk
Index DE-apocope · apocope · German
apocope · 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 | apocope |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [əˈpɒkəˌpi] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „apocope“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
apocope is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [əˈpɒkəˌpi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wegfall eines oder mehrerer Laute oder auch einer Silbe am Wortende".
Zero misspellings are on record for apocope in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is apocope, spelled A-P-O-C-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Wegfall eines oder mehrerer Laute oder auch einer Silbe am Wortende
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how apocope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apocope comes from the Greek word apokoptein.
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.