Latte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,761
in German word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Latte is aGermannoun. It means: langes, vierkantiges Holz, dünner als ein Balken, dicker als eine Leiste und schmaler als ein Brett Pronounced [ˈlatə]. It ranks #9,761 in German word frequency. Often confused with LTE and Laut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Latte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlatə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Latte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlatə]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,761 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for Latte, with forms such as "latet", "llatte", and "ltate". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LTE", "Laut", "litt", 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 Latte, spelled L-A-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1langes, vierkantiges Holz, dünner als ein Balken, dicker als eine Leiste und schmaler als ein Brett
- 2waagerechter Teil eines Tores
- 3der Vorgang, wenn der Ball von der Latte^([2]) abprallt, anstatt ins Tor zu gehen
- 4derb umgangssprachlich für (einen großen) erigierten Penis
- 5ein Stab, der übersprungen werden muss; ein Ziel, das erreicht werden soll
- 6viel
- 7langer Mensch
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: latet,llatte,ltate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Latte
Misspelling Variants of "Latte"
Frequency rank: #9,761 in German
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