Welle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,315
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Welle is aGermannoun. It means: Erhebung von Wasser Pronounced [ˈvɛlə]. It ranks #4,315 in German word frequency. Often confused with will and Welt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Welle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛlə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Welle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɛlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,315 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Welle, with forms such as "ewlle", "wele", and "welel". 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, "will", "Welt", "were", 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 Welle, spelled W-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Erhebung von Wasser
- 2Art der Energieausbreitung, zum Beispiel des Schalls oder Lichts
- 3eine geistige, kulturelle, politische, allgemeine Strömung, die sich wiederholt und steigert
- 4Maschinenteil zur Übertragung von Drehbewegungen
- 5eine Turnübung
- 6Schrittkombination beim Tanzen
- 7eine von Zuschauern aufgeführte, spezielle Anfeuerungsart
- 8etwas, das optisch an eine Woge erinnert, zum Beispiel eine Erhebung des Bodens oder die Form der Haare
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ewlle,wele,welel,wlele,wwelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Welle
Misspelling Variants of "Welle"
Frequency rank: #4,315 in German
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