Apsis
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#60,341
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Apsis is aGermannoun. It means: halbrunde oder polygonale Altarnische in einem Tempel beziehungsweise einer Kirche Pronounced [ˈapsɪs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apsis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapsɪs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Apsis is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapsɪs]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,341 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Apsis in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Apsis, spelled A-P-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1halbrunde oder polygonale Altarnische in einem Tempel beziehungsweise einer Kirche
- 2in einem Zelt eine halbrunde Einbuchtung, Vertiefung in einer Wand, in der Gepäck verstaut werden kann
- 3Scheitelpunkt einer (elliptischen) Umlaufbahn eines Himmelskörpers
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #60,341 in German
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