Afrikanische Eierschlange
[afʁiˌkaːnɪʃə ˈaɪ̯ɐˌʃlaŋə]
The verdict
“Afrikanische Eierschlange” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — eierfressende Schlange, die südlich der Sahara verbreitet ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Afrikanische Eierschlange |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [afʁiˌkaːnɪʃə ˈaɪ̯ɐˌʃlaŋə] |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Afrikanische Eierschlange” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Afrikanische Eierschlange is 25 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [afʁiˌkaːnɪʃə ˈaɪ̯ɐˌʃlaŋə]. 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: "eierfressende Schlange, die südlich der Sahara verbreitet ist".
No misspelling variants are generated for Afrikanische Eierschlange 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 Afrikanische Eierschlange, spelled A-F-R-I-K-A-N-I-S-C-H-E- -E-I-E-R-S-C-H-L-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eierfressende Schlange, die südlich der Sahara verbreitet ist
Synonyms
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- The one correct German spelling is A-F-R-I-K-A-N-I-S-C-H-E- -E-I-E-R-S-C-H-L-A-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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