Kralle
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#53,010
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Kralle is aGermannoun. It means: aus Horn gewachsene, gebogene, spitz zulaufende Hautbildung an den Zehen und Vorderzehen von Wirbeltieren Pronounced [ˈkʁalə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kralle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁalə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kralle is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkʁalə]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,010 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Kralle in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Kralle, spelled K-R-A-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aus Horn gewachsene, gebogene, spitz zulaufende Hautbildung an den Zehen und Vorderzehen von Wirbeltieren
- 2Gebilde an den Extremitäten von Gliederfüßern
- 3Hand
- 4Gerät in Form einer Kralle [1]
- 5Gerät in Form einer Kralle [1]
- 6Gerät in Form einer Kralle [1]
- 7Gerät in Form einer Kralle [1]
- 8Gerät in Form einer Kralle [1]
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #53,010 in German
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