because of
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
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0
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because of is aGermanprep. It means: wegen; aufgrund Pronounced [bɪˈkʌz əv].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | because of |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | [bɪˈkʌz əv] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for because of is 10 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bɪˈkʌz əv]. 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: "wegen; aufgrund".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for because of in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 because of, spelled B-E-C-A-U-S-E- -O-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1wegen; aufgrund
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