Sprache
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#738
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
Sprache is aGermannoun. It means: das Vermögen, die allgemeine Fähigkeit zu sprechen, sich zu verständigen; der Informationsträger mündlicher oder schriftlicher Kommunikation (= langage, Sprachvermögen/Sprachfähigkeit) Pronounced [ˈʃpʁaːxə]. It ranks #738 in German word frequency. Often confused with sprich and Spruch.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sprache |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpʁaːxə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sprache is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃpʁaːxə]. Corpus data places it at rank #738 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sprache, with forms such as "psrache", "sparche", and "spprache". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "sprich", "Spruch", "Sprech", 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 Sprache, spelled S-P-R-A-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Vermögen, die allgemeine Fähigkeit zu sprechen, sich zu verständigen; der Informationsträger mündlicher oder schriftlicher Kommunikation (= langage, Sprachvermögen/Sprachfähigkeit)
- 2ein System von Einheiten und Regeln, das den Mitgliedern einer Sprachgemeinschaft als Mittel der Verständigung dient (= Langue, Einzelsprache)
- 3eine Varietät von [2], fachlich, regional, sozial, … bedingt
- 4Art der Sprachverwendung: Rede (= parole), Sprechweise, Schreibweise, Stil
- 5Zeichen und Regeln, um Software zu schreiben
- 6Sprache definiert als (un)endliche Möglichkeiten der Verknüpfung einer endlichen Anzahl Zeichen (im Alphabet)
- 7Art der Aussprache, der Artikulation
- 8Ausdrucksform nichtsprachlicher Art
- 9Ausdrucksform von Tieren
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psrache,sparche,spprache,spracche,spraceh,sprachhe,sprahce,sprcahe,sprrache,srpache,ssprache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Sprache
Misspelling Variants of "Sprache"
Frequency rank: #738 in German
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