Cape Town

/[ˈkeɪp ˌtaʊn]/ name

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Cape Town is aGermanname. It means: legislative Hauptstadt der Republik Südafrika; Kapstadt Pronounced [ˈkeɪp ˌtaʊn].

Key facts for Cape Town
PropertyValue
HeadwordCape Town
LanguageGerman
Part of speechName
IPA[ˈkeɪp ˌtaʊn]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Cape Town is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Cape Town is 9 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkeɪp ˌtaʊn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "legislative Hauptstadt der Republik Südafrika; Kapstadt".

No misspelling variants are generated for Cape Town in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 Cape Town, spelled C-A-P-E- -T-O-W-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    legislative Hauptstadt der Republik Südafrika; Kapstadt

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Cape Town"?
"Cape Town" is spelled C-A-P-E- -T-O-W-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkeɪp ˌtaʊn].
What does "Cape Town" mean?
As a name, "Cape Town" means: legislative Hauptstadt der Republik Südafrika; Kapstadt
How do you pronounce "Cape Town"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Cape Town" is [ˈkeɪp ˌtaʊn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Cape Town" come from?
"Cape Town" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.