bao cao su
The verdict
“bao cao su” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: meist aus Latex bestehende Hülle, die vor dem Geschlechtsverkehr über das männliche Glied gestreift wird, um vor Schwangerschaften und sexuell übertragbaren Krankheiten zu schützen; Kondom
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bao cao su |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʔɓaːw˧˧ kaːw˧˧ su˧˧] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bao cao su” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bao cao su is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʔɓaːw˧˧ kaːw˧˧ su˧˧]. 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: "meist aus Latex bestehende Hülle, die vor dem Geschlechtsverkehr über das männliche Glied gestreift wird, um vor Schwangerschaften und sexuell übertragbaren Krankheiten zu schützen; Kondom".
No misspelling variants are generated for bao cao su 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 bao cao su, spelled B-A-O- -C-A-O- -S-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1meist aus Latex bestehende Hülle, die vor dem Geschlechtsverkehr über das männliche Glied gestreift wird, um vor Schwangerschaften und sexuell übertragbaren Krankheiten zu schützen; Kondom
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Using “bao cao su”
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- The one correct German spelling is B-A-O- -C-A-O- -S-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʔɓaːw˧˧ kaːw˧˧ su˧˧] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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