Senke
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,265
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Senke is aGermannoun. It means: flache Vertiefung im Boden Pronounced [ˈzɛŋkə]. Often confused with sone and sens.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Senke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛŋkə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Senke is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzɛŋkə]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,265 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 Senke, with forms such as "esnke", "sekne", and "senek". 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, "sone", "sens", "Serie", 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 Senke, spelled S-E-N-K-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1flache Vertiefung im Boden
- 2feinmaschiges, quadratisches Netz mit zwei sich rechtwinklig überkreuzenden Draht- oder Kunststoffbügeln, an deren Mitte eine Schnur befestigt ist zum Zwecke des Fangs kleiner Köderfische
- 3Empfänger einer Nachricht
- 4Endpunkt einer Strömung bei Vektorfeldern mit negativer Divergenz (das Gegenteil einer )
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Also misspelled as: esnke,sekne,senek,senkke,sennke,sneke,ssenke
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Misspelling Variants of "Senke"
Frequency rank: #32,265 in German
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