balík

/[ˈbaliːk]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

balík is aGermannoun. It means: Person, die wohl nicht weiß, was sich gehört; Person, die sich ungesittet oder unhöflich verhält, ungebildeter Mensch; Klotz, Fettnäpfchen-Suchgerät, Primitivling, Strahlkopf Pronounced [ˈbaliːk].

Key facts for balík
PropertyValue
Headwordbalík
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈbaliːk]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

balík 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 balík is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaliːk]. 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: "Person, die wohl nicht weiß, was sich gehört; Person, die sich ungesittet oder unhöflich verhält, ungebildeter Mensch; Klotz, Fettnäpfchen-Suchgerät, Primitivling, Strahlkopf".

No misspelling variants are generated for balík 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 balík, spelled B-A-L-Í-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Person, die wohl nicht weiß, was sich gehört; Person, die sich ungesittet oder unhöflich verhält, ungebildeter Mensch; Klotz, Fettnäpfchen-Suchgerät, Primitivling, Strahlkopf

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "balík"?
"balík" is spelled B-A-L-Í-K. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbaliːk].
What does "balík" mean?
As a noun, "balík" means: Person, die wohl nicht weiß, was sich gehört; Person, die sich ungesittet oder unhöflich verhält, ungebildeter Mensch; Klotz, Fettnäpfchen-Suchgerät, Primitivling, Strahlkopf
How do you pronounce "balík"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "balík" is [ˈbaliːk]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "balík" come from?
"balík" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.