capellà
[kəpəˈʎa]
The verdict
“capellà” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Kaplan, der Pfarrer, der Priester
Corpus desk
Index DE-capella · capellà · German
capellà · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capellà |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kəpəˈʎa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „capellà“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
capellà is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kəpəˈʎa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Kaplan, der Pfarrer, der Priester".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for capellà, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is capellà, spelled C-A-P-E-L-L-À.
Definition
- 1der Kaplan, der Pfarrer, der Priester
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.