Vokal
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,923
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
Vokal is aGermannoun. It means: Laut der Sprache, bei dem der Luftstrom relativ ungehindert durch den offenen Mund oder die Nase austritt und die Stimmbänder schwingen Pronounced [voˈkaːl]. Often confused with vol and voll.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vokal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [voˈkaːl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Vokal is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [voˈkaːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,923 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Vokal, with forms such as "ovkal", "vkoal", and "voakl". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "vol", "voll", "voran", 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 Vokal, spelled V-O-K-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Laut der Sprache, bei dem der Luftstrom relativ ungehindert durch den offenen Mund oder die Nase austritt und die Stimmbänder schwingen
- 2Buchstabe, der für einen Vokallaut steht
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovkal,vkoal,voakl,vokall,vokkal,vokla,vvokal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Vokal
Misspelling Variants of "Vokal"
Frequency rank: #28,923 in German
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