Olympus Mons
The verdict
“Olympus Mons” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: erloschener Vulkan auf dem Planeten Mars; seine Gipfelhöhe beträgt 26 km über der umliegenden Tiefebene und ist der größte Vulkan im Planetensystem
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Olympus Mons |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [oˈlʏmpʊs ˈmɔns] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Olympus Mons” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Olympus Mons is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈlʏmpʊs ˈmɔns]. 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: "erloschener Vulkan auf dem Planeten Mars; seine Gipfelhöhe beträgt 26 km über der umliegenden Tiefebene und ist der größte Vulkan im Planetensystem".
No misspelling variants are generated for Olympus Mons 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 Olympus Mons, spelled O-L-Y-M-P-U-S- -M-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1erloschener Vulkan auf dem Planeten Mars; seine Gipfelhöhe beträgt 26 km über der umliegenden Tiefebene und ist der größte Vulkan im Planetensystem
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Olympus Mons”
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- The one correct German spelling is O-L-Y-M-P-U-S- -M-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [oˈlʏmpʊs ˈmɔns] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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