cantine

/[kɑ̃tin]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cantine is aGermannoun. It means: Behälter mit Fächern zum Transport von Flaschen Pronounced [kɑ̃tin].

Key facts for cantine
PropertyValue
Headwordcantine
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kɑ̃tin]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cantine is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for cantine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɑ̃tin]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cantine 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 cantine, spelled C-A-N-T-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Behälter mit Fächern zum Transport von Flaschen
  2. 2
    solider Behälter, besonders für persönliche Sachen auf dienstlichen Reisen
  3. 3
    Örtlichkeit zum Verkauf von Getränken und Essen an Mitglieder einer Gemeinschaft, manchmal subventioniert
  4. 4
    Küche und Ausgabestelle von Lebensmitteln einer Truppe im Feld

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cantine"?
"cantine" is spelled C-A-N-T-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is [kɑ̃tin].
What does "cantine" mean?
As a noun, "cantine" means: Behälter mit Fächern zum Transport von Flaschen
How do you pronounce "cantine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cantine" is [kɑ̃tin]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cantine" come from?
"cantine" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.