Glückwunsch

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The German entry for Glückwunsch is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡlʏkˌvʊnʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,531 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gratulation zu einem besonderen Ereignis, zum Beispiel Geburtstag, Hochzeit oder Geburt".

Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for Glückwunsch, with forms such as "gglückwunsch", "glcükwunsch", and "gllückwunsch". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Glückwünsche", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Glückwunsch, spelled G-L-Ü-C-K-W-U-N-S-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.