stella
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,242
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
stella is aGermannoun. It means: der Stern: massereiche, selbstleuchtende Gaskugel im Universum Pronounced [ˈstella]. Often confused with still and stellt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stella |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈstella] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for stella is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈstella]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,242 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 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 stella, with forms such as "setlla", "sstella", and "stela". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "still", "stellt", "Stelle", 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 stella, spelled S-T-E-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Stern: massereiche, selbstleuchtende Gaskugel im Universum
- 2das Sternchen
- 3der Star
- 4der Seestern: Meerestier mit mindestens fünf sternenförmig angeordneten Armen
- 5das Edelweiß: krautige Pflanze mit sternenförmig angeordneten, wollig-filzig, schmal lanzettlichen, etwa fünf Zentimeter langen weiß glänzenden Laubblättern
- 6der Weihnachtsstern: Pflanze der Gattung Wolfsmilch mit auffälligen, intensiv gefärbten Hochblätter, die sternförmig angeordnet sind
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: setlla,sstella,stela,stelal,stlela,sttella,tsella
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stella
Misspelling Variants of "stella"
Frequency rank: #13,242 in German
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