Chrysler Building
The verdict
“Chrysler Building” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 1930 fertiggestellter Wolkenkratzer im Stil des Art déco in Manhattan in New York City
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chrysler Building |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɹaɪ̯slɐˌbɪldɪŋ] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chrysler Building” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Chrysler Building is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɹaɪ̯slɐˌbɪldɪŋ]. 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: "1930 fertiggestellter Wolkenkratzer im Stil des Art déco in Manhattan in New York City".
No misspelling variants are generated for Chrysler Building 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 Chrysler Building, spelled C-H-R-Y-S-L-E-R- -B-U-I-L-D-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11930 fertiggestellter Wolkenkratzer im Stil des Art déco in Manhattan in New York City
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is C-H-R-Y-S-L-E-R- -B-U-I-L-D-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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