invocare

verb

The verdict

“invocare” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
8
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: zu sich rufen, herbeirufen

Key facts for invocare
PropertyValue
Headwordinvocare
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “invocare” sits in German frequency

invocare falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for invocare is 8 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for invocare in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 invocare, spelled I-N-V-O-C-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    zu sich rufen, herbeirufen
  2. 2
    anrufen
  3. 3
    (den Namen seiner Geliebten) ausrufen
  4. 4
    sich auf etwas berufen, an etwas appellieren
  5. 5
    um etwas bitten; anrufen, anflehen
  6. 6
    jemanden in einer bestimmten Weise ansprechen oder bezeichnen; sich an jemanden wenden, jemanden nennen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "invocare"?
"invocare" is spelled I-N-V-O-C-A-R-E.
What does "invocare" mean?
As a verb, "invocare" means: zu sich rufen, herbeirufen
What language does "invocare" come from?
"invocare" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “invocare”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is I-N-V-O-C-A-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

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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.