Libelle
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,673
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Libelle is aGermannoun. It means: Vertreter einer Ordnung von am Wasser lebenden, stabförmigen Raubinsekten mit vier nicht faltbaren Flügeln (Odonata) Pronounced [liˈbɛlə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Libelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [liˈbɛlə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Libelle is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [liˈbɛlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,673 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Libelle in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Libelle, spelled L-I-B-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vertreter einer Ordnung von am Wasser lebenden, stabförmigen Raubinsekten mit vier nicht faltbaren Flügeln (Odonata)
- 2eine Art gebogene Haarspange
- 3Teil von bestimmten Messinstrumenten bestehend aus einem mit einer Flüssigkeit und einer Luft- beziehungsweise Gasblase gefüllten Röhrchen aus Glas oder Kunststoff, mit dem die horizontale beziehungsweise vertikale Lage eines Gegenstandes überprüft wird
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Frequency rank: #50,673 in German
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