lange Rochade
The verdict
“lange Rochade” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: bezeichnet die Rochade am Damenflügel, der weiße König zieht von e1 nach c1 und der Turm von a1 nach d1 (schwarz: König von e8 nach c8 und Turm von a8 nach d8)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lange Rochade |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈlaŋə ʁɔˈxaːdə] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lange Rochade” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for lange Rochade is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlaŋə ʁɔˈxaːdə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "bezeichnet die Rochade am Damenflügel, der weiße König zieht von e1 nach c1 und der Turm von a1 nach d1 (schwarz: König von e8 nach c8 und Turm von a8 nach d8)".
No misspelling variants are generated for lange Rochade in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 lange Rochade, spelled L-A-N-G-E- -R-O-C-H-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bezeichnet die Rochade am Damenflügel, der weiße König zieht von e1 nach c1 und der Turm von a1 nach d1 (schwarz: König von e8 nach c8 und Turm von a8 nach d8)
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Using “lange Rochade”
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- The one correct German spelling is L-A-N-G-E- -R-O-C-H-A-D-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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