dado
Letters
4 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
dado is aGermannoun. It means: der Würfel: Spielgerät, das nach einem Wurf auf einer waagerechten Ebene eine von mehreren unterscheidbaren stabilen Ruhelagen einnimmt und in vielen Spielen als Zufallsgenerator dient Pronounced [ˈdado].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dado |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdado] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for dado is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdado]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dado in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 dado, spelled D-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Würfel: Spielgerät, das nach einem Wurf auf einer waagerechten Ebene eine von mehreren unterscheidbaren stabilen Ruhelagen einnimmt und in vielen Spielen als Zufallsgenerator dient
- 2die Schraubenmutter: mit einem Innengewinde versehene und aufschraubbare Gegenstück einer Schraube, eines Gewindebolzens oder einer Welle
- 3der Suppenwürfel: quaderförmig gepresste Mischung aus Salz, Geschmacksverstärker, getrockneter Würze und Zuckerarten, die mit Fett, meist gehärtetem Pflanzenöl gebunden wird
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