čekaj

/[ˈt͡ʃɛ̂kaj]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

čekaj is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs čekati Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃɛ̂kaj].

Key facts for čekaj
PropertyValue
Headwordčekaj
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈt͡ʃɛ̂kaj]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

čekaj 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 čekaj is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃɛ̂kaj]. 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: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs čekati".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for čekaj 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 čekaj, spelled Č-E-K-A-J, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs čekati

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "čekaj"?
"čekaj" is spelled Č-E-K-A-J. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt͡ʃɛ̂kaj].
What does "čekaj" mean?
As a verb, "čekaj" means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs čekati
How do you pronounce "čekaj"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "čekaj" is [ˈt͡ʃɛ̂kaj]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "čekaj" come from?
"čekaj" 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.