approval
[əˈpruːvəl]
The verdict
“approval” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Akt der persönlichen Zustimmung
Corpus desk
Index DE-approval · approval · German
approval · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | approval |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [əˈpruːvəl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „approval“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
approval is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [əˈpruːvəl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for approval, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 approval, spelled A-P-P-R-O-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Akt der persönlichen Zustimmung
- 2Akt der Zustimmung einer Behörde
- 3Zustimmung einer Menge von Leuten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how approval appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I would like to express my approval.
"I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval."
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.