grauer Star
The verdict
“grauer Star” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Erkrankung des Auges, bei dem sich die Linse trübt und man die Sehfähigkeit nach und nach verliert/erblindet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grauer Star |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌɡʁaʊ̯ɐ ˈʃtaːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grauer Star” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for grauer Star is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌɡʁaʊ̯ɐ ˈʃtaːɐ̯]. 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: "Erkrankung des Auges, bei dem sich die Linse trübt und man die Sehfähigkeit nach und nach verliert/erblindet".
No misspelling variants are generated for grauer Star 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 grauer Star, spelled G-R-A-U-E-R- -S-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Erkrankung des Auges, bei dem sich die Linse trübt und man die Sehfähigkeit nach und nach verliert/erblindet
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- The one correct German spelling is G-R-A-U-E-R- -S-T-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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