Seele
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,711
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Seele is aGermannoun. It means: charakteristisches Merkmal lebender Wesen; der unsterbliche Teil der (fühlenden) Lebewesen Pronounced [ˈzeːlə]. It ranks #1,711 in German word frequency. Often confused with sel and sehe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Seele |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzeːlə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Seele is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzeːlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,711 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 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 Seele, with forms such as "esele", "seeel", and "seelle". 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, "sel", "sehe", "Seen", 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 Seele, spelled S-E-E-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1charakteristisches Merkmal lebender Wesen; der unsterbliche Teil der (fühlenden) Lebewesen
- 2die Gefühlswelt eines Lebewesens, ursprünglich nur bei Menschen, später auch den Tieren (wie ein täglich begleitendes Reitpferd oder Haustiere) und anderen Lebewesen zu- oder anerkannt
- 3gutwillige Instanz
- 4Mitglied oder Einwohner einer (Kirchen-)Gemeinde
- 5Botschaft eines Musikstückes
- 6Inneres eines Seiles, Kabels oder Ähnlichem
- 7das Innere oder die Füllung manchen Lötzinns mit Flussmittel
- 8Innenbauteil (der Stimmstock) einer Violine oder anderer Saiteninstrumente
- 9Hohlraum, zum Beispiel eines Gewehrlaufs oder der Achse eines Korkenziehers
- 10süddeutsche Brotspezialität
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esele,seeel,seelle,sele,selee,sseele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Seele
Misspelling Variants of "Seele"
Frequency rank: #1,711 in German
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