Burkini
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#70,115
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Burkini is aGermannoun. It means: eine zu islamischen Kleidungsvorschriften konforme, den gesamten Körper verhüllende Badekleidung für Frauen Pronounced [ˌbʊʁˈkiːni].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Burkini |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌbʊʁˈkiːni] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Burkini is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌbʊʁˈkiːni]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,115 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine zu islamischen Kleidungsvorschriften konforme, den gesamten Körper verhüllende Badekleidung für Frauen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Burkini 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 Burkini, spelled B-U-R-K-I-N-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine zu islamischen Kleidungsvorschriften konforme, den gesamten Körper verhüllende Badekleidung für Frauen
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Frequency rank: #70,115 in German
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