Appellativ
[apɛlaˈtiːf]
The verdict
“Appellativ” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bezeichnung für eine Klasse von Personen, Tieren, Pflanzen oder Gegenständen
Corpus desk
Index DE-appellativ · Appellativ · German
Appellativ · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | Appellativ |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [apɛlaˈtiːf] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Appellativ“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Appellativ is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [apɛlaˈtiːf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bezeichnung für eine Klasse von Personen, Tieren, Pflanzen oder Gegenständen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Appellativ in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Appellativ, spelled A-P-P-E-L-L-A-T-I-V.
Definition
- 1Bezeichnung für eine Klasse von Personen, Tieren, Pflanzen oder Gegenständen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Appellativ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Interessanterweise können Eigennamen aber in Gattungsnamen, sogenannte Appellative, übergehen - und umgekehrt.“
„Das Verhältnis von Propria und Appellativen auf der morphematisch-lexematischen Ebene ist dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß es Morpheme/Lexeme gibt, die synchron ausschließlich auf diesen Bereich beschränkt sind.“
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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.