Kupplung
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,417
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Kupplung is aGermannoun. It means: Maschinenelement, das zwei drehbare Teile verbindet, um ein Drehmoment zu übertragen Pronounced [ˈkʊplʊŋ]. Often confused with Kühlung and Kopplung.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kupplung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʊplʊŋ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kupplung is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkʊplʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,417 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kupplung, with forms such as "kkupplung", "kpuplung", and "kuplpung". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Kühlung", "Kopplung", 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 Kupplung, spelled K-U-P-P-L-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maschinenelement, das zwei drehbare Teile verbindet, um ein Drehmoment zu übertragen
- 2Pedal in einem Kraftfahrzeug zur Betätigung von [1]
- 3Mechanismus, beispielsweise an Fahrzeugen, Anhängern oder Waggons, mit denen diese untereinander verbunden werden können
- 4lösbare Verbindung von Schläuchen oder Elektrokabeln zum Transport/zur Leitung von Gas oder Flüssigkeit (häufig Öl oder Wasser) oder elektrischem Strom
- 5das Kuppeln, also das Verbinden von zwei oder mehr Teilen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kkupplung,kpuplung,kuplpung,kuplung,kuppllung,kupplnug,kupplugn,kupplungg,kupplunng,kuppulng,ukpplung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kupplung
Misspelling Variants of "Kupplung"
Frequency rank: #24,417 in German
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