limbo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,209
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
limbo is aGermannoun. It means: spekulativer Aufenthaltsort der Seelen, die vom Himmel ausgeschlossen, aber nicht zu weiterer Bestrafung verdammt sind; Vorhölle, Limbus Pronounced [ˈlɪmbəʊ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limbo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlɪmbəʊ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for limbo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlɪmbəʊ]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,209 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 limbo 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 limbo, spelled L-I-M-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1spekulativer Aufenthaltsort der Seelen, die vom Himmel ausgeschlossen, aber nicht zu weiterer Bestrafung verdammt sind; Vorhölle, Limbus
- 2ein Ort oder Zustand des Vergessens, der Nichtbeachtung oder der andauernden Unsicherheit; Schwebezustand, Abstellgleis, Vergessenheit
- 3ein Tanz aus der Karibik, aufgeführt unterhalb einer waagrechten Stange, die immer niedriger gelegt wird
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,209 in German
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