aquila

/[aˈkwila]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#58,553

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

aquila is aGermannoun. It means: ein großer Raubvogel aus der Familie der Habichtartigen; der Adler Pronounced [aˈkwila].

Key facts for aquila
PropertyValue
Headwordaquila
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈkwila]
Letters6
Frequency rank#58,553
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of aquila in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for aquila is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈkwila]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,553 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ein großer Raubvogel aus der Familie der Habichtartigen; der Adler".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for aquila 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 aquila, spelled A-Q-U-I-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ein großer Raubvogel aus der Familie der Habichtartigen; der Adler

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #58,553 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aquila"?
"aquila" is spelled A-Q-U-I-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈkwila].
What does "aquila" mean?
As a noun, "aquila" means: ein großer Raubvogel aus der Familie der Habichtartigen; der Adler
How do you pronounce "aquila"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aquila" is [aˈkwila]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aquila" come from?
"aquila" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.