Zentrale
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,278
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
Zentrale is aGermannoun. It means: Mittelpunkt und Schaltstelle einer Organisation oder einer Firma Pronounced [t͡sɛnˈtʁaːlə]. It ranks #2,278 in German word frequency. Often confused with Zentralen and zentraler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zentrale |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡sɛnˈtʁaːlə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Zentrale is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡sɛnˈtʁaːlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,278 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Zentrale, with forms such as "ezntrale", "zenntrale", and "zenrtale". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Zentralen", "zentraler", "zentrales", 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 Zentrale, spelled Z-E-N-T-R-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mittelpunkt und Schaltstelle einer Organisation oder einer Firma
- 2Gerade, die durch den Mittelpunkt eines Kreises geht
- 3zentraler Raum in einem Gebäude in dem technische Anlage installiert sind
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ezntrale,zenntrale,zenrtale,zentarle,zentrael,zentralle,zentrlae,zentrrale,zenttrale,zetnrale,znetrale,zzentrale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Zentrale
Misspelling Variants of "Zentrale"
Frequency rank: #2,278 in German
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