Doppelpunkt
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,254
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Doppelpunkt is aGermannoun. It means: Name des Satzzeichens (Interpunktionszeichens) ":", das eine kataphorische Funktion hat; es weist auf das Folgende hin: ein Zitat, einen Begriff; etwas, das besonders hervorgehoben werden soll. Pronounced [ˈdɔpl̩ˌpʊŋkt].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Doppelpunkt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdɔpl̩ˌpʊŋkt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Doppelpunkt is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɔpl̩ˌpʊŋkt]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,254 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Doppelpunkt 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 Doppelpunkt, spelled D-O-P-P-E-L-P-U-N-K-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Name des Satzzeichens (Interpunktionszeichens) ":", das eine kataphorische Funktion hat; es weist auf das Folgende hin: ein Zitat, einen Begriff; etwas, das besonders hervorgehoben werden soll.
- 2Zeichen, das in der Lautschrift die Länge des vorhergehenden Vokals anzeigt
- 3Zeichen für die mathematische Operation der Division oder eines Verhältnisses
- 4zwei nebeneinander liegende Punkte als Zeichen für die Verlängerung einer Note/Pause um die Hälfte und nochmals um deren Hälfte, also um drei Viertel des Ausgangswerts
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Frequency rank: #55,254 in German
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