Dalai Lama

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Dalai Lama is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdaːlaɪ̯ˈlaːma]. 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: "höchster Lama innerhalb der Hierarchie der Gelug-Schule des tibetischen Buddhismus; Geistiger Führer der Tibeter".

No misspelling variants are generated for Dalai Lama 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 Dalai Lama, spelled D-A-L-A-I- -L-A-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.