Eureka

/[…]/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,960

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Eureka is aGermanname. It means: Hafenstadt im Nordwesten des US-Bundesstaats Kalifornien Pronounced […].

Key facts for Eureka
PropertyValue
HeadwordEureka
LanguageGerman
Part of speechName
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#56,960
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Eureka in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Eureka is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,960 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 Eureka 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 Eureka, spelled E-U-R-E-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hafenstadt im Nordwesten des US-Bundesstaats Kalifornien
  2. 2
    weitere Städte untere anderem in den USA, zum Beispiel in Nevada

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #56,960 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Eureka"?
"Eureka" is spelled E-U-R-E-K-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Eureka" mean?
As a name, "Eureka" means: Hafenstadt im Nordwesten des US-Bundesstaats Kalifornien
How do you pronounce "Eureka"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Eureka" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Eureka" come from?
"Eureka" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.