appliance
[əˈplaɪəns]
The verdict
“appliance” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Gerät, die Vorrichtung, der Apparat
Corpus desk
Index DE-appliance · appliance · German
appliance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | appliance |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [əˈplaɪəns] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „appliance“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
appliance is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [əˈplaɪəns]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for appliance, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 appliance, spelled A-P-P-L-I-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1das Gerät, die Vorrichtung, der Apparat
- 2das Haushaltsgerät, besonders das elektrische
- 3britisch: das Fahrzeug der Feuerwehr
- 4das zur Anwendung bringen, das Anwenden
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.