Asyl
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,242
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Asyl is aGermannoun. It means: Unterkunft für Personen ohne eigene Wohnung Pronounced [aˈzyːl]. It ranks #5,242 in German word frequency. Often confused with ay and Aye.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Asyl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈzyːl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Asyl is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈzyːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,242 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Asyl, with forms such as "asly", "assyl", and "asyll". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "Aye", "Axel", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Asyl, spelled A-S-Y-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unterkunft für Personen ohne eigene Wohnung
- 2Ort oder Gebäude, wo Schutz gegen Verfolgung, Rache, Abschiebung oder Ähnliches gewährt wird
- 3Schutz (insbesondere vor politischer Verfolgung), der an einem bestimmten Ort oder in einem bestimmten Gebiet gewährt wird, indem die verfolgte Person sich dort aufhalten darf
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asly,assyl,asyll,asyyl,aysl,sayl
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Asyl
Misspelling Variants of "Asyl"
Frequency rank: #5,242 in German
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