Ellipse
[ɛˈlɪpsə]
The verdict
“Ellipse” is uncommon German (frequency #56,084 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,084
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geschlossene ovale Kurve
Corpus desk
Index DE-ellipse · Ellipse · German
Ellipse · rank #56,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,084
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH elitär
Nearest frequency peer: elitär (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Ellipse“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- einzuberufen
einzuberufen
43,921 corpus weight
- Eiter
Eiter
43,920 corpus weight
- elitär
elitär
43,918 corpus weight
- Ellipse
Ellipse
43,917 corpus weight
- Englischken…
Englischkenntnisse
43,914 corpus weight
- Engländerin
Engländerin
43,913 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ellipse“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ellipse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛˈlɪpsə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ellipse“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ellipse is uncommon German at frequency #56,084 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛˈlɪpsə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Ellipse in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Ellipse, spelled E-L-L-I-P-S-E.
Definition
- 1geschlossene ovale Kurve
- 2Fehlen von syntaktisch notwendigen Satzteilen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ellipse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eine Ellipse ist die Menge aller Punkte einer Ebene, für die die Summe der Abstände zu zwei gegebenen Punkten, den Brennpunkten, gleich ist.
„Wie Johannes Kepler (1571 bis 1630) im Jahre 1609 gezeigt hat, ist die Erdbahn nicht exakt kreisförmig, sondern angenähert eine Ellipse, in deren einem Brennpunkt die Sonne steht.“
Synonyms
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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