Bananenrepublik
Letters
15 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,967
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Bananenrepublik is aGermannoun. It means: in den mittelamerikanischen Tropen befindliches (kleineres) Land, das hauptsächlich und umfangreich Bananen exportiert (und auf fremdes, besonders US-amerikanisches, Kapital angewiesen ist) Pronounced [baˈnaːnənʁepuˌbliːk].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bananenrepublik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈnaːnənʁepuˌbliːk] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #55,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Bananenrepublik is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈnaːnənʁepuˌbliːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,967 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Bananenrepublik 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 Bananenrepublik, spelled B-A-N-A-N-E-N-R-E-P-U-B-L-I-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in den mittelamerikanischen Tropen befindliches (kleineres) Land, das hauptsächlich und umfangreich Bananen exportiert (und auf fremdes, besonders US-amerikanisches, Kapital angewiesen ist)
- 2zumeist Land, dessen wirtschaftliche, politisch-moralische oder rechtliche Verhältnisse von Korruption, Ineffizienz und Instabilität geprägt sind
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #55,967 in German
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