chuồn chuồn
The verdict
“chuồn chuồn” 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: am Wasser lebendes, stabförmiges Raubinsekt mit vier nicht faltbaren Flügeln; Libelle
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chuồn chuồn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ɕuən˨˩ t͡ɕuən˨˩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chuồn chuồn” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for chuồn chuồn is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ɕuən˨˩ t͡ɕuən˨˩]. 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: "am Wasser lebendes, stabförmiges Raubinsekt mit vier nicht faltbaren Flügeln; Libelle".
No misspelling variants are generated for chuồn chuồn 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 chuồn chuồn, spelled C-H-U-Ồ-N- -C-H-U-Ồ-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1am Wasser lebendes, stabförmiges Raubinsekt mit vier nicht faltbaren Flügeln; Libelle
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Using “chuồn chuồn”
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- The one correct German spelling is C-H-U-Ồ-N- -C-H-U-Ồ-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t͡ɕuən˨˩ t͡ɕuən˨˩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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