Eisbein
Letters
7 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Eisbein is aGermannoun. It means: Teil des Schweinebeins, der sich zwischen den Ellenbogen- beziehungsweise Kniegelenken und den Fußwurzelgelenken befindet und auf verschiedene Arten zubereitet werden kann Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯sˌbaɪ̯n].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eisbein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯sˌbaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Eisbein is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯sˌbaɪ̯n]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Eisbein 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 Eisbein, spelled E-I-S-B-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Teil des Schweinebeins, der sich zwischen den Ellenbogen- beziehungsweise Kniegelenken und den Fußwurzelgelenken befindet und auf verschiedene Arten zubereitet werden kann
- 2halbe (oder ganze) Hüfte (und Schlüsselbein) eines Tieres
- 3Prellung am Oberschenkel
- 4kalte Füße
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