Capsella bursa-pastoris

/[…]/ noun

Letters

23 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Capsella bursa-pastoris is aGermannoun. It means: der wissenschaftliche Name des gewöhnlichen Hirtentäschels Pronounced […].

Key facts for Capsella bursa-pastoris
PropertyValue
HeadwordCapsella bursa-pastoris
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Capsella bursa-pastoris is 23 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "der wissenschaftliche Name des gewöhnlichen Hirtentäschels".

No misspelling variants are generated for Capsella bursa-pastoris 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 Capsella bursa-pastoris, spelled C-A-P-S-E-L-L-A- -B-U-R-S-A---P-A-S-T-O-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    der wissenschaftliche Name des gewöhnlichen Hirtentäschels

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Capsella bursa-pastoris"?
"Capsella bursa-pastoris" is spelled C-A-P-S-E-L-L-A- -B-U-R-S-A---P-A-S-T-O-R-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Capsella bursa-pastoris" mean?
As a noun, "Capsella bursa-pastoris" means: der wissenschaftliche Name des gewöhnlichen Hirtentäschels
How do you pronounce "Capsella bursa-pastoris"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Capsella bursa-pastoris" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Capsella bursa-pastoris" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.