glottal
[ɡlɔˈtaːl]
The verdict
“glottal” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - an der Glottis (= Stimmritze) gebildet
Corpus desk
Index DE-glottal · glottal · German
glottal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glottal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡlɔˈtaːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „glottal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
glottal is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡlɔˈtaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "an der Glottis (= Stimmritze) gebildet".
No misspelling variants are generated for glottal in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is glottal, spelled G-L-O-T-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1an der Glottis (= Stimmritze) gebildet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glottal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Glottal ist im Deutschen [h] und der sog. Knacklaut [ʔ].
„Schließlich muss noch für den Glottischlag [ʔ] und die glottale Turbulenz [h] ein Artikulationsort glottal angesetzt werden.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.