Lapis Niger
The verdict
“Lapis Niger” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine quadratische Fläche aus schwarzen Marmorplatten auf dem Forum Romanum in Rom aus dem 6. Jahrhundert vor Christi
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lapis Niger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lapis Niger” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Lapis Niger is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "eine quadratische Fläche aus schwarzen Marmorplatten auf dem Forum Romanum in Rom aus dem 6. Jahrhundert vor Christi".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lapis Niger 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 Lapis Niger, spelled L-A-P-I-S- -N-I-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine quadratische Fläche aus schwarzen Marmorplatten auf dem Forum Romanum in Rom aus dem 6. Jahrhundert vor Christi
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Using “Lapis Niger”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-A-P-I-S- -N-I-G-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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