-erei
Letters
5 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
-erei is aGermansuffix. It means: oft abwertend, nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement, das – angehängt an ein Verb oder Substantiv – das Wort zur Tätigkeit macht Pronounced [əˈʁaɪ̯].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -erei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | [əˈʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for -erei is 5 letters long, classified as asuffix, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [əˈʁaɪ̯]. 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 -erei 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 -erei, spelled --E-R-E-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1oft abwertend, nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement, das – angehängt an ein Verb oder Substantiv – das Wort zur Tätigkeit macht
- 2nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement, das – angehängt an ein Verb oder Substantiv – das neue Wort zur Wirkungsstätte macht
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