Wappen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,661
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Wappen is aGermannoun. It means: Symbol eines Adelsgeschlechts, einer Stadt, Gebietskörperschaft oder eines Staates, bestehend aus einem Schild und gegebenenfalls weiterem Zubehör Pronounced [ˈvapn̩]. It ranks #9,661 in German word frequency. Often confused with waren and warten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wappen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvapn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wappen is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvapn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,661 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.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 Wappen, with forms such as "awppen", "wapen", and "wapepn". 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, "waren", "warten", "warnen", 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 Wappen, spelled W-A-P-P-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Symbol eines Adelsgeschlechts, einer Stadt, Gebietskörperschaft oder eines Staates, bestehend aus einem Schild und gegebenenfalls weiterem Zubehör
- 2Kriegswappen, welches die Zugehörigkeit von Wehrmännern und Fahrzeugen zu einer bestimmten Streitmacht oder einem bestimmten Teil einer Streitmacht sichtbar anzeigt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: awppen,wapen,wapepn,wappenn,wappne,wpapen,wwappen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Wappen
Misspelling Variants of "Wappen"
Frequency rank: #9,661 in German
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