westlichen Längen
[ˌvɛstlɪçn̩ ˈlɛŋən]
The verdict
“westlichen Längen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dativ Plural der starken Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | westlichen Längen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌvɛstlɪçn̩ ˈlɛŋən] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “westlichen Längen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for westlichen Längen is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌvɛstlɪçn̩ ˈlɛŋən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for westlichen Längen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 westlichen Längen, spelled W-E-S-T-L-I-C-H-E-N- -L-Ä-N-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural der starken Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
- 2Nominativ Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
- 3Genitiv Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
- 4Dativ Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
- 5Akkusativ Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
- 6Nominativ Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
- 7Genitiv Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
- 8Dativ Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
- 9Akkusativ Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs westliche Länge
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is W-E-S-T-L-I-C-H-E-N- -L-Ä-N-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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