Sippe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,057
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Sippe is aGermannoun. It means: Gruppe von Menschen mit gemeinsamer Abstammung, die unter anderem durch Bräuche miteinander verbunden sind Pronounced [ˈzɪpə]. Often confused with site and size.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sippe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɪpə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sippe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzɪpə]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,057 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sippe, with forms such as "isppe", "sipe", and "sipep". 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, "site", "size", "Sire", 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 Sippe, spelled S-I-P-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gruppe von Menschen mit gemeinsamer Abstammung, die unter anderem durch Bräuche miteinander verbunden sind
- 2Mitglieder der Familie oder der Verwandtschaft
- 3Gruppe von Tieren oder Pflanzen mit der gleichen Abstammung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: isppe,sipe,sipep,spipe,ssippe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Sippe
Misspelling Variants of "Sippe"
Frequency rank: #27,057 in German
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