Apt

[apt]

/[apt]/ name

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)

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.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Apt
PropertyValue
HeadwordApt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[apt]
Letters3
Frequency rank#56,759
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Wo “Apt” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Aptliegt hier:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. In derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite liegen „Arbeitsbelastung“ (#56,760), „Apparatur“ (#56,757), „Arbeitsmoral“ (#56,761). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Kleinstadt im Süden Frankreichs, Département Vaucluse

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Apt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ich bin in Apt geboren.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Apt"?
"Apt" is spelled A-P-T. The IPA pronunciation is [apt].
What does "Apt" mean?
As a proper noun, "Apt" means: Kleinstadt im Süden Frankreichs, Département Vaucluse
How do you pronounce "Apt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Apt" is [apt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Apt" come from?
"Apt" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Apt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list