Altbauer
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8 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Altbauer is aGermannoun. It means: ein sich im Ruhestandsalter befindender Bauer, der seinen Hof zum Teil oder schon ganz an einen Nachfolger (zum Beispiel an den Sohn) übergeben hat (aber den Hof unter Umständen noch mit bewirtscha... Pronounced [ˈaltˌbaʊ̯ɐ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Altbauer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaltˌbaʊ̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Altbauer is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaltˌbaʊ̯ɐ]. 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 Altbauer 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 Altbauer, spelled A-L-T-B-A-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein sich im Ruhestandsalter befindender Bauer, der seinen Hof zum Teil oder schon ganz an einen Nachfolger (zum Beispiel an den Sohn) übergeben hat (aber den Hof unter Umständen noch mit bewirtschaftet)
- 2Bauer, der bereits vor der Bodenreform in der SBZ 1945 Landwirtschaft betrieben hat
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