Birkauge
[bɪʁkˌaʊ̯ɡə]
The verdict
“Birkauge” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auge, dessen Iris ein oder mehrere weiße Bereiche aufgrund von Pigmentmangel hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-birkauge · Birkauge · German
Birkauge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Birkauge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɪʁkˌaʊ̯ɡə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Birkauge“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Birkauge is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [bɪʁkˌaʊ̯ɡə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Auge, dessen Iris ein oder mehrere weiße Bereiche aufgrund von Pigmentmangel hat".
Birkauge doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Birkauge, spelled B-I-R-K-A-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Auge, dessen Iris ein oder mehrere weiße Bereiche aufgrund von Pigmentmangel hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Birkauge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Dalmatiner meiner Freundin hat ein Birkauge.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.