adherent
Letters
8 characters
Language
German
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adherent is aGermannoun. It means: Person, die sich für jemanden/eine Idee einsetzt; Anhänger, Befürworter, Verfechter Pronounced [atˈxɛrɛnt].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adherent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [atˈxɛrɛnt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for adherent is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [atˈxɛrɛnt]. 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: "Person, die sich für jemanden/eine Idee einsetzt; Anhänger, Befürworter, Verfechter".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for adherent in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 adherent, spelled A-D-H-E-R-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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- 1Person, die sich für jemanden/eine Idee einsetzt; Anhänger, Befürworter, Verfechter
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