Ahnfrau
Letters
7 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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Ahnfrau is aGermannoun. It means: (sagenhafte) Begründerin eines Familiengeschlechts, Stammes, Volkes oder Ähnliches Pronounced [ˈaːnˌfʁaʊ̯].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ahnfrau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːnˌfʁaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Ahnfrau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaːnˌfʁaʊ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Ahnfrau 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 Ahnfrau, spelled A-H-N-F-R-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(sagenhafte) Begründerin eines Familiengeschlechts, Stammes, Volkes oder Ähnliches
- 2Mutter des Vaters oder der Mutter
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