Ecke
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,806
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Ecke is aGermannoun. It means: Punkt, in welchem zwei begrenzende Linien einer Fläche beziehungsweise drei oder mehr Grenzflächen eines Körpers zusammenstoßen Pronounced [ˈɛkə]. It ranks #1,806 in German word frequency. Often confused with ee and ek.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ecke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛkə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ecke is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɛkə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,806 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Ecke, with forms such as "ceke", "eccke", and "ecek". 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, "ee", "ek", "Ehe", 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 Ecke, spelled E-C-K-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Punkt, in welchem zwei begrenzende Linien einer Fläche beziehungsweise drei oder mehr Grenzflächen eines Körpers zusammenstoßen
- 2Stelle, an der zwei Straßen zusammentreffen: Straßenecke
- 3kleines Stück von etwas
- 4etwas in der Form einer Ecke ^([1])
- 5Teil eines Gebietes, Ortes, Gartens: Gegend
- 6Kurzform für Eckball oder Eckstoß; die vier Winkel des Ringes oder der Matte
- 7zu einer bestimmten Personengruppe gehören
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ceke,eccke,ecek,eckke,ekce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Ecke
Misspelling Variants of "Ecke"
Frequency rank: #1,806 in German
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