Gefäß
Letters
5 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Gefäß is aGermannoun. It means: ein Behälter, in dem Stoffe verschiedener Beschaffenheit aufbewahrt und transportiert werden können Pronounced [ɡəˈfɛːs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gefäß |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfɛːs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Gefäß is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈfɛːs]. 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 Gefäß 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 Gefäß, spelled G-E-F-Ä-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein Behälter, in dem Stoffe verschiedener Beschaffenheit aufbewahrt und transportiert werden können
- 2schlauchförmiger Leitungsabschnitt für Körperflüssigkeiten wie Blut oder Lymphflüssigkeiten
- 3eine röhrenförmige Leitungsbahn, die dem Transport von Wasser und Nährsalzen dient
- 4der Griff einer Blankwaffe wie Schwert, Degen oder Säbel
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