cordillère des Andes
[kɔʁdijɛʁdezɑ̃d]
The verdict
“cordillère des Andes” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Gebirgskette in Südamerika; Andenkordilleren, Anden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cordillère des Andes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kɔʁdijɛʁdezɑ̃d] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cordillère des Andes” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for cordillère des Andes is 20 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɔʁdijɛʁdezɑ̃d]. 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: "Gebirgskette in Südamerika; Andenkordilleren, Anden".
No misspelling variants are generated for cordillère des Andes 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 cordillère des Andes, spelled C-O-R-D-I-L-L-È-R-E- -D-E-S- -A-N-D-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gebirgskette in Südamerika; Andenkordilleren, Anden
Synonyms
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.
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- The one correct German spelling is C-O-R-D-I-L-L-È-R-E- -D-E-S- -A-N-D-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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