androgyn
[andʁoˈɡyːn]
The verdict
“androgyn” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - männliche und weibliche Eigenschaften in sich vereinigend
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | androgyn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [andʁoˈɡyːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “androgyn” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for androgyn is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [andʁoˈɡyːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for androgyn in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is androgyn, spelled A-N-D-R-O-G-Y-N.
Definition
- 1männliche und weibliche Eigenschaften in sich vereinigend
- 2biologische Merkmale beider Geschlechter aufweisend; zweigeschlechtlich
- 3zwittrig (Hermaphroditismus aufweisend), (scheinbar) zwitterhaft, sexuell nicht (einem Geschlecht) zuzuordnen, intersexuell, transsexuell
- 4eine zwischen männlich und weiblich gemischte Geschlechtspräsentation aufweisend
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “androgyn”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-N-D-R-O-G-Y-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [andʁoˈɡyːn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.