Divan
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#90,143
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Divan is aGermannoun. It means: Register von Schriftstücken staatlicher oder wirtschaftlicher Art in der islamischen Verwaltung Pronounced [ˈdiːvaːn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Divan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdiːvaːn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Divan is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdiːvaːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,143 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Divan in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Divan, spelled D-I-V-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Register von Schriftstücken staatlicher oder wirtschaftlicher Art in der islamischen Verwaltung
- 2kann für Ratsversammlung, Kanzlei, Gerichtshof, Empfangsraum des Herrschers stehen oder auch in der osmanischen Türkei den Staatsrat meinen
- 3die zur Einrichtung der betreffenden Räume gehörenden niedrigen Polsterbänke an der Wand
Frequency rank: #90,143 in German
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