Chișinău
The verdict
“Chișinău” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Hauptstadt von Moldau; Stadt in Moldawien
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chișinău |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˌkiʃiˈnəu̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chișinău” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Chișinău is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌkiʃiˈnəu̯]. 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: "Hauptstadt von Moldau; Stadt in Moldawien".
No misspelling variants are generated for Chișinău 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 Chișinău, spelled C-H-I-Ș-I-N-Ă-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt von Moldau; Stadt in Moldawien
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Using “Chișinău”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-H-I-Ș-I-N-Ă-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌkiʃiˈnəu̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our German index: