diakritisches Zeichen

/[diaˌkʁiːtɪʃəs ˈt͡saɪ̯çn̩]/ phrase

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21 characters

Language

German

word origin

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diakritisches Zeichen is aGermanphrase. It means: zusätzliche Zeichen zu den Buchstaben eines Schriftsystems, um unterschiedliche Dinge wie Akzent oder die genaue Aussprache anzuzeigen Pronounced [diaˌkʁiːtɪʃəs ˈt͡saɪ̯çn̩].

Key facts for diakritisches Zeichen
PropertyValue
Headworddiakritisches Zeichen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[diaˌkʁiːtɪʃəs ˈt͡saɪ̯çn̩]
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

diakritisches Zeichen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for diakritisches Zeichen is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diaˌkʁiːtɪʃəs ˈt͡saɪ̯çn̩]. 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: "zusätzliche Zeichen zu den Buchstaben eines Schriftsystems, um unterschiedliche Dinge wie Akzent oder die genaue Aussprache anzuzeigen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for diakritisches Zeichen 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 diakritisches Zeichen, spelled D-I-A-K-R-I-T-I-S-C-H-E-S- -Z-E-I-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    zusätzliche Zeichen zu den Buchstaben eines Schriftsystems, um unterschiedliche Dinge wie Akzent oder die genaue Aussprache anzuzeigen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "diakritisches Zeichen"?
"diakritisches Zeichen" is spelled D-I-A-K-R-I-T-I-S-C-H-E-S- -Z-E-I-C-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [diaˌkʁiːtɪʃəs ˈt͡saɪ̯çn̩].
What does "diakritisches Zeichen" mean?
As a phrase, "diakritisches Zeichen" means: zusätzliche Zeichen zu den Buchstaben eines Schriftsystems, um unterschiedliche Dinge wie Akzent oder die genaue Aussprache anzuzeigen
How do you pronounce "diakritisches Zeichen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "diakritisches Zeichen" is [diaˌkʁiːtɪʃəs ˈt͡saɪ̯çn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "diakritisches Zeichen" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.