ele

/[ˈjele]/ pron

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#75,565

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ele is aGermanpron. It means: Personalpronomen der 3. Person Plural Femininum im Nominativ/Akkusativ: sie. Angesprochen ist eine weibliche Gruppe. Bei einer gemischten Gruppe wird die männliche Form benutzt. Pronounced [ˈjele].

Key facts for ele
PropertyValue
Headwordele
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPron
IPA[ˈjele]
Letters3
Frequency rank#75,565
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ele in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ele is 3 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjele]. Corpus data places it at rank #75,565 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personalpronomen der 3. Person Plural Femininum im Nominativ/Akkusativ: sie. Angesprochen ist eine weibliche Gruppe. Bei einer gemischten Gruppe wird die männliche Form benutzt.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ele 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 ele, spelled E-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Personalpronomen der 3. Person Plural Femininum im Nominativ/Akkusativ: sie. Angesprochen ist eine weibliche Gruppe. Bei einer gemischten Gruppe wird die männliche Form benutzt.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #75,565 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ele"?
"ele" is spelled E-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈjele].
What does "ele" mean?
As a pron, "ele" means: Personalpronomen der 3. Person Plural Femininum im Nominativ/Akkusativ: sie. Angesprochen ist eine weibliche Gruppe. Bei einer gemischten Gruppe wird die männliche Form benutzt.
How do you pronounce "ele"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ele" is [ˈjele]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ele" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.