Kapelle
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,210
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Kapelle is aGermannoun. It means: einfach gestaltetes Andachtsgebäude, kleines Gotteshaus, das meist nicht für regelmäßige Gottesdienste einer Gemeinde bestimmt ist Pronounced [kaˈpɛlə]. It ranks #6,210 in German word frequency. Often confused with Kelle and Kapellen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kapelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈpɛlə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kapelle is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈpɛlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,210 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Kapelle, with forms such as "akpelle", "kaeplle", and "kapele". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Kelle", "Kapellen", "Kamele", 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 Kapelle, spelled K-A-P-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einfach gestaltetes Andachtsgebäude, kleines Gotteshaus, das meist nicht für regelmäßige Gottesdienste einer Gemeinde bestimmt ist
- 2abgeteilter Raum in einem größeren Gotteshaus oder sonstigen Gebäude, der für Gottesdienste, Taufen und dergleichen von einer Gemeinde, genutzt wird
- 3kleines Musiker-Ensemble, das insbesondere Tanz- und Unterhaltungsmusik spielt
- 4Sängerchor, der in Kirchen für Darbietungen reiner Gesangsmusik sorgte
- 5logenähnliche Räumlichkeiten in Kirchen, die bestimmten Familien oder Behörden zur Nutzung überlassen wurden
- 6Abtritt, Toilette
- 7Schmelztiegel
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: akpelle,kaeplle,kapele,kapelel,kaplele,kappelle,kkapelle,kpaelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kapelle
Misspelling Variants of "Kapelle"
Frequency rank: #6,210 in German
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