feudal
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feudal is anGermanadj. It means: den Feudalismus, das Lehenswesen des Mittelalters betreffend, bei dem ein Lehnsherr Land als Lehen an Vasallen vergab im Austausch gegen Dienste, vor allem Kriegsdienst Pronounced [fɔɪ̯ˈdaːl].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feudal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [fɔɪ̯ˈdaːl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for feudal is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɔɪ̯ˈdaːl]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for feudal 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 feudal, spelled F-E-U-D-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1den Feudalismus, das Lehenswesen des Mittelalters betreffend, bei dem ein Lehnsherr Land als Lehen an Vasallen vergab im Austausch gegen Dienste, vor allem Kriegsdienst
- 2unter sehr guten (finanziellen) Bedingungen existierend; reich, luxuriös seiend
- 3von aristokratischen Kreisen beeinflusst und/oder darin lebend
- 4veralteten politischen Ansichten verhaftet, reaktionär
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