Australia
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,017
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
Australia is aGermanname. It means: Australien Pronounced [ɔːsˈtreɪ̯liə]. Often confused with Austria and Australien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Australia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [ɔːsˈtreɪ̯liə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Australia is 9 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔːsˈtreɪ̯liə]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,017 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Australien".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Australia, with forms such as "asutralia", "ausrtalia", and "ausstralia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Austria", "Australien", "Australier", 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 Australia, spelled A-U-S-T-R-A-L-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Australien
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asutralia,ausrtalia,ausstralia,austarlia,austraila,australai,australlia,austrlaia,austrralia,austtralia,autsralia,uastralia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Australia
Misspelling Variants of "Australia"
Frequency rank: #29,017 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our German index: