gebundenes Lexem
The verdict
“gebundenes Lexem” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Morphem, das nicht als selbständiges Wort, sondern immer nur als Wortteil vorkommt und durch Anhängung ein neues Lexem schafft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gebundenes Lexem |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɡəˌbʊndənəs lɛˈkseːm] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gebundenes Lexem” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gebundenes Lexem is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˌbʊndənəs lɛˈkseːm]. 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: "Morphem, das nicht als selbständiges Wort, sondern immer nur als Wortteil vorkommt und durch Anhängung ein neues Lexem schafft".
No misspelling variants are generated for gebundenes Lexem 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 gebundenes Lexem, spelled G-E-B-U-N-D-E-N-E-S- -L-E-X-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Morphem, das nicht als selbständiges Wort, sondern immer nur als Wortteil vorkommt und durch Anhängung ein neues Lexem schafft
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- The one correct German spelling is G-E-B-U-N-D-E-N-E-S- -L-E-X-E-M — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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