Kapitel
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,976
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
Kapitel is aGermannoun. It means: größere Einteilung in einer geschriebenen oder gezeichneten Geschichte, die es dem Leser einfacher macht, verschiedene Handlungsstränge oder Themen nachzuvollziehen Pronounced [kaˈpɪtl̩]. It ranks #2,976 in German word frequency. Often confused with Kapsel and Kapitol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kapitel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈpɪtl̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kapitel is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈpɪtl̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,976 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Kapitel, with forms such as "akpitel", "kaiptel", and "kapietl". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Kapsel", "Kapitol", "Kapiteln", 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 Kapitel, spelled K-A-P-I-T-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1größere Einteilung in einer geschriebenen oder gezeichneten Geschichte, die es dem Leser einfacher macht, verschiedene Handlungsstränge oder Themen nachzuvollziehen
- 2ein nicht fiktiver Lebensabschnitt, der sich vom vorherigen stark unterscheidet
- 3Körperschaft der zu einer Domkirche oder Stiftskirche gehörenden Geistlichen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: akpitel,kaiptel,kapietl,kapitell,kapitle,kapittel,kappitel,kaptiel,kkapitel,kpaitel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kapitel
Misspelling Variants of "Kapitel"
Frequency rank: #2,976 in German
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