černý
Letters
5 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
černý is anGermanadj. It means: Licht absorbierend beziehungsweise kein Licht emittierend Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃɛrniː].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | černý |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃɛrniː] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for černý is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃɛrniː]. 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 černý 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 černý, spelled Č-E-R-N-Ý, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Licht absorbierend beziehungsweise kein Licht emittierend
- 2einem dunkelhäutigen Menschentyp angehörend
- 3einem Geheimnisvollen, Gesetzwidrigen oder Bösen verhaftet oder unterworfen seiend
- 4gesetzwidrig, illegal handelnd oder sich aufhaltend
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Nearby German words
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