chân dung
The verdict
“chân dung” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: künstlerische Darstellung einer Person, meist in Form eines Gemäldes; Porträt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chân dung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ɕən˧˧ zʊwŋ͡m˧˧] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chân dung” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for chân dung is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ɕən˧˧ zʊwŋ͡m˧˧]. 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: "künstlerische Darstellung einer Person, meist in Form eines Gemäldes; Porträt".
No misspelling variants are generated for chân dung 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 chân dung, spelled C-H-Â-N- -D-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1künstlerische Darstellung einer Person, meist in Form eines Gemäldes; Porträt
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- The one correct German spelling is C-H-Â-N- -D-U-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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