Graffito
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#98,522
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Graffito is aGermannoun. It means: Inschrift, die in eine Wand eingeritzt wurde und von sprach- und kulturgeschichtlicher Relevanz ist Pronounced [ɡʁaˈfɪto].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Graffito |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡʁaˈfɪto] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Graffito is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡʁaˈfɪto]. Corpus data places it at rank #98,522 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Graffito 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 Graffito, spelled G-R-A-F-F-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Inschrift, die in eine Wand eingeritzt wurde und von sprach- und kulturgeschichtlicher Relevanz ist
- 2Dekoration, die in eine Marmorfliese eingeritzt ist und ein mehrfarbiges ornamentales oder figurales Motiv hat
- 3mit Spray auf Mauern, Fassaden, Wänden oder sonstigen Oberflächen im öffentlichen Raum aufgebrachte Schriftzüge oder Bilder, typischerweise ungefragt und ohne Erlaubnis
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Frequency rank: #98,522 in German
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