Ergänzungsfrage

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Ergänzungsfrage is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈɡɛnt͡sʊŋsˌfʁaːɡə]. 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: "Frage, die durch ein Fragewort eingeleitet wird und eine Antwort auf die durch das Fragewort angesprochene Wissenslücke hervorrufen soll".

No misspelling variants are generated for Ergänzungsfrage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 Ergänzungsfrage, spelled E-R-G-Ä-N-Z-U-N-G-S-F-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.