Apt
[apt]
The verdict
“Apt” is uncommon German (frequency #56,759 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,759
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kleinstadt im Süden Frankreichs, Département Vaucluse
Corpus desk
Index DE-apt · Apt · German
Apt · rank #56,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,759
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Arbeitsbelast…
Nearest frequency peer: Arbeitsbelastung (+1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Apt”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Antony
Antony
43,245 corpus weight
- Apparatur
Apparatur
43,244 corpus weight
- Apt
Apt
43,242 corpus weight
- Arbeitsbela…
Arbeitsbelastung
43,241 corpus weight
- Arbeitsmoral
Arbeitsmoral
43,240 corpus weight
- Armenhaus
Armenhaus
43,239 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Apt” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [apt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Apt” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Apt is uncommon German at frequency #56,759 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [apt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kleinstadt im Süden Frankreichs, Département Vaucluse".
Apt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Apt, spelled A-P-T.
Definition
- 1Kleinstadt im Süden Frankreichs, Département Vaucluse
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Apt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich bin in Apt geboren.
Ich habe in Apt meinen Urlaub verbracht.
This word in other languages
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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