Quelle
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,267
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
Quelle is aGermannoun. It means: Ursprung eines Flusses, fließenden Gewässers; Ort des augenscheinlichen oberirdischen Austritts von Gewässern Pronounced [ˈkvɛlə]. It ranks #1,267 in German word frequency. Often confused with quere and queue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkvɛlə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Quelle is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkvɛlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,267 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Quelle, with forms such as "qeulle", "qquelle", and "quele". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "quere", "queue", "quellen", 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 Quelle, spelled Q-U-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ursprung eines Flusses, fließenden Gewässers; Ort des augenscheinlichen oberirdischen Austritts von Gewässern
- 2Ursprung von etwas Bestimmten
- 3wissenschaftlich auswertbares Primärmaterial
- 4Person, die über direkte Informationen verfügt
- 5Ausgangspunkt einer Strömung bei Vektorfeldern mit positiver Divergenz (das Gegenteil einer )
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qeulle,qquelle,quele,quelel,qulele,uqelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Quelle
Misspelling Variants of "Quelle"
Frequency rank: #1,267 in German
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