geschlossener Vokal

/[ɡəˈʃlɔsənɐ voˈkaːl]/ phrase

Letters

19 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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0

similar word pairs

geschlossener Vokal is aGermanphrase. It means: Linguistik, speziell Vokal, der mit geringer Lippenöffnung gesprochen wird Pronounced [ɡəˈʃlɔsənɐ voˈkaːl].

Key facts for geschlossener Vokal
PropertyValue
Headwordgeschlossener Vokal
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ɡəˈʃlɔsənɐ voˈkaːl]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

geschlossener Vokal 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 geschlossener Vokal is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈʃlɔsənɐ voˈkaːl]. 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: "Linguistik, speziell Vokal, der mit geringer Lippenöffnung gesprochen wird".

No misspelling variants are generated for geschlossener Vokal 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 geschlossener Vokal, spelled G-E-S-C-H-L-O-S-S-E-N-E-R- -V-O-K-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Linguistik, speziell Vokal, der mit geringer Lippenöffnung gesprochen wird

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "geschlossener Vokal"?
"geschlossener Vokal" is spelled G-E-S-C-H-L-O-S-S-E-N-E-R- -V-O-K-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡəˈʃlɔsənɐ voˈkaːl].
What does "geschlossener Vokal" mean?
As a phrase, "geschlossener Vokal" means: Linguistik, speziell Vokal, der mit geringer Lippenöffnung gesprochen wird
How do you pronounce "geschlossener Vokal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "geschlossener Vokal" is [ɡəˈʃlɔsənɐ voˈkaːl]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "geschlossener Vokal" come from?
"geschlossener Vokal" 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.