Wettlauf um Afrika
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The verdict
“Wettlauf um Afrika” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Kolonialisierung des afrikanischen Kontinents in der Hochphase des Imperialismus von 1880 bis 1914
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wettlauf um Afrika |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wettlauf um Afrika” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wettlauf um Afrika is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Kolonialisierung des afrikanischen Kontinents in der Hochphase des Imperialismus von 1880 bis 1914".
No misspelling variants are generated for Wettlauf um Afrika 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 Wettlauf um Afrika, spelled W-E-T-T-L-A-U-F- -U-M- -A-F-R-I-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Kolonialisierung des afrikanischen Kontinents in der Hochphase des Imperialismus von 1880 bis 1914
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- The one correct German spelling is W-E-T-T-L-A-U-F- -U-M- -A-F-R-I-K-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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