Delphin
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,211
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Delphin is aGermannoun. It means: zu den Zahnwalen gehörendes, in Schulen lebendes, meist fischfressendes Meeressäugetier mit torpedoförmigem Körper, langgezogenem Schnabel und kegelförmigen Zähnen Pronounced [dɛlˈfiːn]. Often confused with Delphine and Delhi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delphin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɛlˈfiːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Delphin is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dɛlˈfiːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,211 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Delphin, with forms such as "ddelphin", "delhpin", and "dellphin". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Delphine", "Delhi", "Delfin", 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 Delphin, spelled D-E-L-P-H-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zu den Zahnwalen gehörendes, in Schulen lebendes, meist fischfressendes Meeressäugetier mit torpedoförmigem Körper, langgezogenem Schnabel und kegelförmigen Zähnen
- 2ein Schwimmstil
- 3Sternbild in der Nähe des Himmelsäquators
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddelphin,delhpin,dellphin,delphhin,delphinn,delphni,delpihn,delpphin,deplhin,dlephin,edlphin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Delphin
Misspelling Variants of "Delphin"
Frequency rank: #45,211 in German
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