Dark Wave
The verdict
“Dark Wave” 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
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine Epoche der Musik und zugleich Oberbegriff für eine Reihe von Musikstilen, die sich ab Ende der 1970er Jahre zur Zeit der New-Wave- und Post-Punk-Bewegung entwickelten. Die dunkel oder teils me...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dark Wave |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdɑːkˈweɪv] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dark Wave” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Dark Wave is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɑːkˈweɪv]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Dark Wave 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 Dark Wave, spelled D-A-R-K- -W-A-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Epoche der Musik und zugleich Oberbegriff für eine Reihe von Musikstilen, die sich ab Ende der 1970er Jahre zur Zeit der New-Wave- und Post-Punk-Bewegung entwickelten. Die dunkel oder teils melancholisch gehaltene Ausführung dieser Spielarten bildete den eigentlichen Gegensatz zum New-Wave-Genre.
- 2(Seit dem Ausklingen der New-Wave-Ära) auch die Musik von Bands der 1990er Jahre, die auf Stilelemente der 1980er zurückgreifen und damit nahtlos an die New-Wave-Epoche anknüpfen
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Using “Dark Wave”
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- The one correct German spelling is D-A-R-K- -W-A-V-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈdɑːkˈweɪv] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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