Apsis
[ˈapsɪs]
The verdict
“Apsis” is an uncommon German word, ranked #60,341 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #60,341
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - halbrunde oder polygonale Altarnische in einem Tempel beziehungsweise einer Kirche
| 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) |
Where “Apsis” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Apsis is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
Apsis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Apsis, spelled A-P-S-I-S.
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
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Apsis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-P-S-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈapsɪs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.