Teleskop
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,536
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Teleskop is aGermannoun. It means: optisches Instrument zur Beobachtung weit entfernter Himmelsobjekte Pronounced [teleˈskoːp]. Often confused with Telekom.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Teleskop |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [teleˈskoːp] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Teleskop is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [teleˈskoːp]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,536 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Teleskop, with forms such as "etleskop", "teelskop", and "teleksop". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Telekom", 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 Teleskop, spelled T-E-L-E-S-K-O-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1optisches Instrument zur Beobachtung weit entfernter Himmelsobjekte
- 2optisches Instrument zur Beobachtung ferner Objekte
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etleskop,teelskop,teleksop,teleskkop,teleskopp,teleskpo,telesokp,telesskop,telleskop,telsekop,tleeskop,tteleskop
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Misspelling Variants of "Teleskop"
Frequency rank: #24,536 in German
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