Damengambit
Letters
11 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Damengambit is aGermannoun. It means: Eröffnung, die nach den Zügen 1. d2-d4 d7-d5 2. c2-c4 entsteht; der Bauer auf c4 ist nicht gedeckt und wird zunächst zum Opfer angeboten (Gambit) Pronounced [ˈdaːmənɡambɪt].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Damengambit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdaːmənɡambɪt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Damengambit is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdaːmənɡambɪt]. 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: "Eröffnung, die nach den Zügen 1. d2-d4 d7-d5 2. c2-c4 entsteht; der Bauer auf c4 ist nicht gedeckt und wird zunächst zum Opfer angeboten (Gambit)".
No misspelling variants are generated for Damengambit 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 Damengambit, spelled D-A-M-E-N-G-A-M-B-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Eröffnung, die nach den Zügen 1. d2-d4 d7-d5 2. c2-c4 entsteht; der Bauer auf c4 ist nicht gedeckt und wird zunächst zum Opfer angeboten (Gambit)
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