duck soup

/[dʌk ˈsuːp]/ phrase

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

duck soup is aGermanphrase. It means: ein Kinderspiel, ein Klacks Pronounced [dʌk ˈsuːp].

Key facts for duck soup
PropertyValue
Headwordduck soup
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[dʌk ˈsuːp]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

duck soup 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 duck soup is 9 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dʌk ˈsuːp]. 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: "ein Kinderspiel, ein Klacks".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for duck soup 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 duck soup, spelled D-U-C-K- -S-O-U-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ein Kinderspiel, ein Klacks

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "duck soup"?
"duck soup" is spelled D-U-C-K- -S-O-U-P. The IPA pronunciation is [dʌk ˈsuːp].
What does "duck soup" mean?
As a phrase, "duck soup" means: ein Kinderspiel, ein Klacks
How do you pronounce "duck soup"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "duck soup" is [dʌk ˈsuːp]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "duck soup" come from?
"duck soup" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.