fahrendes Volk
Letters
14 characters
Language
German
word origin
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0
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0
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fahrendes Volk is aGermanphrase. It means: mittelalterliche Bezeichnung für nichtsesshafte Personen aller Bildungsstufen, die von Ort zu Ort (von Jahrmarkt zu Jahrmarkt, von Hof zu Hof etc.) wanderten und ihre Dienste anboten Pronounced [ˈfaːʁəndəs fɔlk].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fahrendes Volk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfaːʁəndəs fɔlk] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for fahrendes Volk is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfaːʁəndəs fɔlk]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for fahrendes Volk 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 fahrendes Volk, spelled F-A-H-R-E-N-D-E-S- -V-O-L-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mittelalterliche Bezeichnung für nichtsesshafte Personen aller Bildungsstufen, die von Ort zu Ort (von Jahrmarkt zu Jahrmarkt, von Hof zu Hof etc.) wanderten und ihre Dienste anboten
- 2früher umgangssprachlich für Sinti und Roma
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