Kuppel
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,614
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
Kuppel is aGermannoun. It means: halbkugelförmig gewölbte Überdachung Pronounced [ˈkʊpl̩]. Often confused with Kürzel and Kurbel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kuppel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʊpl̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kuppel is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkʊpl̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,614 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "halbkugelförmig gewölbte Überdachung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kuppel, with forms such as "kkuppel", "kpupel", and "kupel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Kürzel", "Kurbel", "kuppeln", 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 Kuppel, spelled K-U-P-P-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1halbkugelförmig gewölbte Überdachung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kkuppel,kpupel,kupel,kupepl,kuppell,kupple,ukppel
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Misspelling Variants of "Kuppel"
Frequency rank: #14,614 in German
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