Aluminiumfolie

/[aluˈmiːni̯ʊmˌfoːli̯ə]/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

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similar word pairs

Aluminiumfolie is aGermannoun. It means: sehr dünn gewalztes Metall (= Folie) aus Aluminium, häufig zum Verpacken von Lebensmitteln eingesetzt Pronounced [aluˈmiːni̯ʊmˌfoːli̯ə].

Key facts for Aluminiumfolie
PropertyValue
HeadwordAluminiumfolie
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aluˈmiːni̯ʊmˌfoːli̯ə]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Aluminiumfolie is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Aluminiumfolie is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aluˈmiːni̯ʊmˌfoːli̯ə]. 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: "sehr dünn gewalztes Metall (= Folie) aus Aluminium, häufig zum Verpacken von Lebensmitteln eingesetzt".

No misspelling variants are generated for Aluminiumfolie 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 Aluminiumfolie, spelled A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M-F-O-L-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sehr dünn gewalztes Metall (= Folie) aus Aluminium, häufig zum Verpacken von Lebensmitteln eingesetzt

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Aluminiumfolie"?
"Aluminiumfolie" is spelled A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M-F-O-L-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is [aluˈmiːni̯ʊmˌfoːli̯ə].
What does "Aluminiumfolie" mean?
As a noun, "Aluminiumfolie" means: sehr dünn gewalztes Metall (= Folie) aus Aluminium, häufig zum Verpacken von Lebensmitteln eingesetzt
How do you pronounce "Aluminiumfolie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Aluminiumfolie" is [aluˈmiːni̯ʊmˌfoːli̯ə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Aluminiumfolie" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.