Bimsstein
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9 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Bimsstein is aGermannoun. It means: hellgraues vulkanisches Gestein von einer schaumig-porösen, glasartigen Konsistenz Pronounced [ˈbɪmsˌʃtaɪ̯n].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bimsstein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɪmsˌʃtaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Bimsstein is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɪmsˌʃtaɪ̯n]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Bimsstein 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 Bimsstein, spelled B-I-M-S-S-T-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1hellgraues vulkanisches Gestein von einer schaumig-porösen, glasartigen Konsistenz
- 2ein aus dem vulkanischen Gestein hergestellter Stein beziehungsweise Baustein
- 3ein Stück des vulkanischen Gesteins, das zur Reinigung besonders der Hände aber auch zum Schleifen und Polieren benutzt wird
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