eine halbe Portion

/[ˈaɪ̯nə ˈhalbə pɔʁˈt͡si̯oːn]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

eine halbe Portion is aGermanphrase. It means: besonders für Speisen: die halbe Menge einer sonst üblichen Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈhalbə pɔʁˈt͡si̯oːn].

Key facts for eine halbe Portion
PropertyValue
Headwordeine halbe Portion
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈaɪ̯nə ˈhalbə pɔʁˈt͡si̯oːn]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

eine halbe Portion 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 eine halbe Portion is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈhalbə pɔʁˈt͡si̯oːn]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for eine halbe Portion 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 eine halbe Portion, spelled E-I-N-E- -H-A-L-B-E- -P-O-R-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    besonders für Speisen: die halbe Menge einer sonst üblichen
  2. 2
    ein kleiner, schmächtiger und / oder schwächlicher Mensch

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "eine halbe Portion"?
"eine halbe Portion" is spelled E-I-N-E- -H-A-L-B-E- -P-O-R-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈhalbə pɔʁˈt͡si̯oːn].
What does "eine halbe Portion" mean?
As a phrase, "eine halbe Portion" means: besonders für Speisen: die halbe Menge einer sonst üblichen
How do you pronounce "eine halbe Portion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "eine halbe Portion" is [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈhalbə pɔʁˈt͡si̯oːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "eine halbe Portion" 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.