Index
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,127
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
Index is aGermannoun. It means: Register, zum Beispiel als alphabetisches Stichwortverzeichnis oder als eine graphische Übersicht (zum Beispiel der Abdeckung eines Gebietes mit Kartenblättern) Pronounced [ˈɪndɛks]. It ranks #4,127 in German word frequency. Often confused with Inge and Ines.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Index |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɪndɛks] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Index is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɪndɛks]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,127 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Index, with forms such as "idnex", "inddex", and "indexx". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Inge", "Ines", "Insel", 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 Index, spelled I-N-D-E-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Register, zum Beispiel als alphabetisches Stichwortverzeichnis oder als eine graphische Übersicht (zum Beispiel der Abdeckung eines Gebietes mit Kartenblättern)
- 2Kennzahl, statistischer Messwert, der im Vergleich (wirtschaftliche) Veränderungen anzeigt
- 3hoch- oder tiefgestelltes Kennzeichen zur Unterscheidung von gleichartigen Größen oder auch Homographen oder Ähnlichem
- 4Zeigefinger
- 5Liste(n) von Medien (zum Beispiel Bücher, Filme), die nicht erscheinen dürfen
- 6Zeichen, das auf Individuen verweist
- 7Maßzahl für die typologische Charakterisierung einer Sprache
- 8Stundenangabe auf einem Zifferblatt; beispielsweise in Punkt- oder Strichform
- 9Fingerzeig (☞)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnex,inddex,indexx,indxe,inedx,inndex,nidex
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Index
Misspelling Variants of "Index"
Frequency rank: #4,127 in German
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