defy
Letters
4 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
defy is aGermanverb. It means: Widerstand leisten; widrigen Umständen standhalten; sich weigern, Anweisungen oder Regeln zu befolgen: sich jemandem/etwas widersetzen, jemandem/etwas trotzen; sich über jemanden/etwas hinwegsetzen Pronounced […].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | defy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for defy is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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 defy 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 defy, spelled D-E-F-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Widerstand leisten; widrigen Umständen standhalten; sich weigern, Anweisungen oder Regeln zu befolgen: sich jemandem/etwas widersetzen, jemandem/etwas trotzen; sich über jemanden/etwas hinwegsetzen
- 2etwas unmöglich machen (Beschreibung, Glauben, Verstehen etc.): sich entziehen
- 3jemand auffordern, etwas zu tun, von dem man glaubt, dass es nicht erfolgreich getan werden kann
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