Affenschaukel
Letters
13 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Affenschaukel is aGermannoun. It means: auszeichnende Schnur an einer militärischen Uniform (insbesondere die Schützenschnur der Nationalen Volksarmee) Pronounced [ˈafn̩ˌʃaʊ̯kl̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Affenschaukel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈafn̩ˌʃaʊ̯kl̩] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Affenschaukel is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈafn̩ˌʃaʊ̯kl̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Affenschaukel 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 Affenschaukel, spelled A-F-F-E-N-S-C-H-A-U-K-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1auszeichnende Schnur an einer militärischen Uniform (insbesondere die Schützenschnur der Nationalen Volksarmee)
- 2zu beiden Seiten des Kopfes schlingenförmig herabhängender Zopf
- 3eine auf Volksfesten und Jahrmärkten anzutreffende Überschlagsschaukel
- 4das Aufhängen einer Person an einer Stange
- 5frei an der Decke vom Stromanschluss zur Lampe führende Lampenleitung; flexible (hängende) Kabelverbindung zu einer Tür
- 6sukkulente Pflanze mit bis zu einem Meter herabhängenden, vollständig mit kleinen sich überlappenden, runden Blättern bewachsenen Trieben, die häufig als Zimmerpflanze Verwendung findet
- 7die Bindetechnik des Pfadfindertuches
- 8das @-Zeichen (At-Zeichen) als grundlegender Bestandteil von Mail-Adressen und als Symbol für das Internet
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