Kassette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,796
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Kassette is aGermannoun. It means: ein verschließbares Kästchen zur Aufbewahrung von Geld oder Wertsachen Pronounced [kaˈsɛtə]. Often confused with kassierte and Kassetten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kassette |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈsɛtə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kassette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈsɛtə]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,796 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Kassette, with forms such as "akssette", "kasestte", and "kasette". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "kassierte", "Kassetten", 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 Kassette, spelled K-A-S-S-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein verschließbares Kästchen zur Aufbewahrung von Geld oder Wertsachen
- 2eine feste Schutzhülle für Bücher, Schallplatten, CDs usw.
- 3ein lichtdichter Behälter in einem Fotoapparat oder in einer Fotokamera, in den der Film oder die Fotoplatte eingelegt wird
- 4ein vertieftes Feld in einer Decke
- 5ein Magnetband, das auf zwei kleinen Spulen gerollt und in ein rechteckiges Gehäuse eingebaut ist
- 6sowohl (veraltend) für mechanische Spieluhren und auch (gegenwärtig, 2014) für elektronische Spielkonsolen
- 7ein kleines Waffenlager (selten tragbar meist aber beweglich), für Geschütztürme auf Schiffen oder Kampfpanzern
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: akssette,kasestte,kasette,kassete,kassetet,kasstete,kaßette,kkassette,ksasette
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Misspelling Variants of "Kassette"
Frequency rank: #24,796 in German
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