fünfte Kolonne

/[ˌfʏnftə koˈlɔnə]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

fünfte Kolonne is aGermanphrase. It means: Gruppe, die verdächtigt wird, insgeheim mit den Interessen einer äußeren feindlichen Macht zu sympathisieren und tatsächlich oder vermeintlich mit diesen zu kollaborieren Pronounced [ˌfʏnftə koˈlɔnə].

Key facts for fünfte Kolonne
PropertyValue
Headwordfünfte Kolonne
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌfʏnftə koˈlɔnə]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fünfte Kolonne is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for fünfte Kolonne is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌfʏnftə koˈlɔnə]. 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: "Gruppe, die verdächtigt wird, insgeheim mit den Interessen einer äußeren feindlichen Macht zu sympathisieren und tatsächlich oder vermeintlich mit diesen zu kollaborieren".

No misspelling variants are generated for fünfte Kolonne 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 fünfte Kolonne, spelled F-Ü-N-F-T-E- -K-O-L-O-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gruppe, die verdächtigt wird, insgeheim mit den Interessen einer äußeren feindlichen Macht zu sympathisieren und tatsächlich oder vermeintlich mit diesen zu kollaborieren

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fünfte Kolonne"?
"fünfte Kolonne" is spelled F-Ü-N-F-T-E- -K-O-L-O-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌfʏnftə koˈlɔnə].
What does "fünfte Kolonne" mean?
As a phrase, "fünfte Kolonne" means: Gruppe, die verdächtigt wird, insgeheim mit den Interessen einer äußeren feindlichen Macht zu sympathisieren und tatsächlich oder vermeintlich mit diesen zu kollaborieren
How do you pronounce "fünfte Kolonne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fünfte Kolonne" is [ˌfʏnftə koˈlɔnə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fünfte Kolonne" come from?
"fünfte Kolonne" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.