Klage
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,898
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Klage is aGermannoun. It means: sprachlich gefasste Äußerung unlustvoller Gefühle von Schmerz, Leid oder Trauer, etwa über den Tod eines Menschen Pronounced [ˈklaːɡə]. It ranks #3,898 in German word frequency. Often confused with klar and klug.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Klage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈklaːɡə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Klage is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈklaːɡə]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,898 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 Klage, with forms such as "kalge", "kklage", and "klaeg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "klar", "klug", "Klee", 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 Klage, spelled K-L-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sprachlich gefasste Äußerung unlustvoller Gefühle von Schmerz, Leid oder Trauer, etwa über den Tod eines Menschen
- 2sprachlich gefasste Äußerung unlustvoller Gefühle von Enttäuschung, Unzufriedenheit, Ärger oder Ressentiment, mit Implikationen von Kritik oder Schelte
- 3ein Antrag an ein Gericht, über einen Rechtsstreit zu entscheiden
- 4bestimmte Formen der Dichtung, in deren Mittelpunkt eine Klage ([1]) steht
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kalge,kklage,klaeg,klagge,klgae,kllage,lkage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Klage"
Frequency rank: #3,898 in German
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