Falle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,726
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Falle is aGermannoun. It means: Vorrichtung zum Fangen von Wildtieren Pronounced [ˈfalə]. It ranks #1,726 in German word frequency. Often confused with faul and full.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Falle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfalə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Falle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfalə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,726 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 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 Falle, with forms such as "aflle", "fale", and "falel". 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, "faul", "full", "Fell", 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 Falle, spelled F-A-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vorrichtung zum Fangen von Wildtieren
- 2Konstrukt zum Fangen, Festhalten, Überlisten, Hinterhalt
- 3Regelungseinrichtung für den Wasserfluss an Fließgewässern
- 4Teil eines Türschlosses, der die Tür im Anschlag hält, nachdem sie „ins Schloss gefallen ist“; Türklinke, Klinke
- 5Bett, Bettstelle
- 6kurz für Sprengfalle
- 7Ionenfalle
- 8Paul-Falle
- 9magneto-optische Falle
- 10Penning-Falle
- 11Kühlfalle, Teil eines Versuchsaufbaus oder einer Anlage in der Chemie und chemischen Industrie
- 12Erdölfalle, eine nach oben abgedichtete geologische Formation, in der sich Erdöl oder Erdgas sammelt
- 13Meteoritenfalle, einen Bereich eines Gletschers, an dem sich Meteoriten sammeln
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aflle,fale,falel,ffalle,flale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Falle
Misspelling Variants of "Falle"
Frequency rank: #1,726 in German
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