Foreigner Talk
The verdict
“Foreigner Talk” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Linguistik: deutlich vereinfachte Redeweise von Muttersprachlern gegenüber Ausländern mit geringen Deutschkenntnissen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Foreigner Talk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɔʁɪnɐ ˈtɔːk] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Foreigner Talk” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Foreigner Talk is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɔʁɪnɐ ˈtɔːk]. 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: "Linguistik: deutlich vereinfachte Redeweise von Muttersprachlern gegenüber Ausländern mit geringen Deutschkenntnissen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Foreigner Talk 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 Foreigner Talk, spelled F-O-R-E-I-G-N-E-R- -T-A-L-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Linguistik: deutlich vereinfachte Redeweise von Muttersprachlern gegenüber Ausländern mit geringen Deutschkenntnissen
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Using “Foreigner Talk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is F-O-R-E-I-G-N-E-R- -T-A-L-K — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfɔʁɪnɐ ˈtɔːk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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