Elter
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#80,296
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Elter is aGermannoun. It means: insbesondere bei sich ungeschlechtlich vermehrenden Lebewesen dasjenige Individuum, bei zwittrigen oder zweigeschlechtlichen eines der beiden Individuen, aus dem beziehungsweise denen das betrachte... Pronounced [ˈɛltɐ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Elter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛltɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Elter is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɛltɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #80,296 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Elter 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 Elter, spelled E-L-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1insbesondere bei sich ungeschlechtlich vermehrenden Lebewesen dasjenige Individuum, bei zwittrigen oder zweigeschlechtlichen eines der beiden Individuen, aus dem beziehungsweise denen das betrachtete hervorgegangen ist
- 2einzelner Mensch, der ein von ihm genetisch abstammendes Kind hat (biologische Elternschaft) und/oder der die soziale Fürsorgeverantwortung für ein Kind übernimmt (soziale Elternschaft)
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Frequency rank: #80,296 in German
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