gemeine Figur
The verdict
“gemeine Figur” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Objekt oder Lebewesen (stilisiert dargestellt) auf einem Wappenschild
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gemeine Figur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɡəˈmaɪ̯nə fiˈɡuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gemeine Figur” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gemeine Figur is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈmaɪ̯nə fiˈɡuːɐ̯]. 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: "Objekt oder Lebewesen (stilisiert dargestellt) auf einem Wappenschild".
No misspelling variants are generated for gemeine Figur 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 gemeine Figur, spelled G-E-M-E-I-N-E- -F-I-G-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objekt oder Lebewesen (stilisiert dargestellt) auf einem Wappenschild
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Using “gemeine Figur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-M-E-I-N-E- -F-I-G-U-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈmaɪ̯nə fiˈɡuːɐ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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