ele
[ˈjele]
The verdict
“ele” is uncommon German (frequency #75,565 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,565
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personalpronomen der 3. Person Plural Femininum im Nominativ/Akkusativ: sie. Angesprochen ist eine weibliche Gruppe. Bei einer gemischten Gruppe wird die männliche Form benutzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ele |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈjele] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ele” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ele is uncommon German at frequency #75,565 among 57,060 “E” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [ˈjele]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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 misspelling variants are generated for ele in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct German form is ele, spelled E-L-E.
Definition
- 1Personalpronomen 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
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ele”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈjele] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.