chicken egg

/[…]/ noun

The verdict

“chicken egg” 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
11
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: (zum Verzehr bestimmtes) Ei, das von einem Huhn gelegt wurde; Hühnerei

Key facts for chicken egg
PropertyValue
Headwordchicken egg
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “chicken egg” sits in German frequency

chicken egg falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for chicken egg is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, 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: "(zum Verzehr bestimmtes) Ei, das von einem Huhn gelegt wurde; Hühnerei".

No misspelling variants are generated for chicken egg 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 chicken egg, spelled C-H-I-C-K-E-N- -E-G-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (zum Verzehr bestimmtes) Ei, das von einem Huhn gelegt wurde; Hühnerei

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chicken egg"?
"chicken egg" is spelled C-H-I-C-K-E-N- -E-G-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "chicken egg" mean?
As a noun, "chicken egg" means: (zum Verzehr bestimmtes) Ei, das von einem Huhn gelegt wurde; Hühnerei
How do you pronounce "chicken egg"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chicken egg" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chicken egg" come from?
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Using “chicken egg”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is C-H-I-C-K-E-N- -E-G-G — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.