Gamelan
Letters
7 characters
Language
German
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Gamelan is aGermannoun. It means: Orchester, Ensemble, das auf traditionellen, einheimischen Schlaginstrumenten (aber auch Blas- und/oder Saiteninstrumenten) aus Java und Bali spielt, besonders zu rituellen, kulturellen, sozialen A... Pronounced [ˈɡaːməlan].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gamelan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡaːməlan] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Gamelan is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡaːməlan]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Gamelan 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 Gamelan, spelled G-A-M-E-L-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Orchester, Ensemble, das auf traditionellen, einheimischen Schlaginstrumenten (aber auch Blas- und/oder Saiteninstrumenten) aus Java und Bali spielt, besonders zu rituellen, kulturellen, sozialen Anlässen
- 2Sammelbezeichnung für verschiedene Musikstile, die von [1] gespielt werden
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