Rappen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,140
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Rappen is aGermannoun. It means: als Rappenpfennig Hauptmünze im Oberrhein-Gebiet, der heutigen Nordschweiz und dem Elsass ab dem 13. Jahrhundert Pronounced [ˈʁapn̩]. Often confused with raten and Rasen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rappen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁapn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Rappen is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁapn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,140 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Rappen, with forms such as "arppen", "rapen", and "rapepn". 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, "raten", "Rasen", "raven", 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 Rappen, spelled R-A-P-P-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1als Rappenpfennig Hauptmünze im Oberrhein-Gebiet, der heutigen Nordschweiz und dem Elsass ab dem 13. Jahrhundert
- 2schweizerische Kleinmünze
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arppen,rapen,rapepn,rappenn,rappne,rpapen,rrappen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Rappen
Misspelling Variants of "Rappen"
Frequency rank: #26,140 in German
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