reception
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#92,117
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
reception is aGermannoun. It means: Empfangstresen, zum Beispiel in einem Hotel, auch das dort beschäftigte Personal Pronounced […].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reception |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for reception is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #92,117 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Empfangstresen, zum Beispiel in einem Hotel, auch das dort beschäftigte Personal".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for reception 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 reception, spelled R-E-C-E-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Empfangstresen, zum Beispiel in einem Hotel, auch das dort beschäftigte Personal
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Frequency rank: #92,117 in German
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