Chinesische Mauer

/[çiˈneːzɪʃə ˈmaʊ̯ɐ]/ phrase

The verdict

“Chinesische Mauer” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: mehrere tausend Kilometer langer Wall, der durch China verläuft

Key facts for Chinesische Mauer
PropertyValue
HeadwordChinesische Mauer
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[çiˈneːzɪʃə ˈmaʊ̯ɐ]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Chinesische Mauer” sits in German frequency

Chinesische Mauer 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 Chinesische Mauer is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [çiˈneːzɪʃə ˈmaʊ̯ɐ]. 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: "mehrere tausend Kilometer langer Wall, der durch China verläuft".

No misspelling variants are generated for Chinesische Mauer 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 Chinesische Mauer, spelled C-H-I-N-E-S-I-S-C-H-E- -M-A-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    mehrere tausend Kilometer langer Wall, der durch China verläuft

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Chinesische Mauer"?
"Chinesische Mauer" is spelled C-H-I-N-E-S-I-S-C-H-E- -M-A-U-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [çiˈneːzɪʃə ˈmaʊ̯ɐ].
What does "Chinesische Mauer" mean?
As a phrase, "Chinesische Mauer" means: mehrere tausend Kilometer langer Wall, der durch China verläuft
How do you pronounce "Chinesische Mauer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Chinesische Mauer" is [çiˈneːzɪʃə ˈmaʊ̯ɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Chinesische Mauer" come from?
"Chinesische Mauer" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Chinesische Mauer”

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

  • The one correct German spelling is C-H-I-N-E-S-I-S-C-H-E- -M-A-U-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [çiˈneːzɪʃə ˈmaʊ̯ɐ] (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.