cloud
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,927
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cloud is aGermannoun. It means: eine abgegrenzte Masse aus sichtbarem Wasserdampf, welcher in der Luft schwebt Pronounced […]. It ranks #5,927 in German word frequency. Often confused with cod and club.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloud |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for cloud is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,927 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cloud, with forms such as "ccloud", "clloud", and "clodu". 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, "cod", "club", "coup", 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 cloud, spelled C-L-O-U-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine abgegrenzte Masse aus sichtbarem Wasserdampf, welcher in der Luft schwebt
- 2ein Masse (große Menge) von Rauch, Staub, Sand die in der Luft schwebt
- 3eine große Anzahl von Insekten, die zusammen durch die Luft fliegen
- 4optischer Fehler innerhalb einer durchsichtigen Masse
- 5etwas, das ein Grund ist für Unglücklichsein oder auch Ungewissheit
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccloud,clloud,clodu,cloudd,cluod,colud,lcoud
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cloud
Misspelling Variants of "cloud"
Frequency rank: #5,927 in German
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Nearby German words
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