guten Appetit

/[ˌɡutn̩ ˌʔapəˈtit]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

guten Appetit is aGermanphrase. It means: Formel für ein gutes gemeinsames Essen, auf dessen Bekömmlichkeit und Wohlschmecken Pronounced [ˌɡutn̩ ˌʔapəˈtit].

Key facts for guten Appetit
PropertyValue
Headwordguten Appetit
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌɡutn̩ ˌʔapəˈtit]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

guten Appetit 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 guten Appetit is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌɡutn̩ ˌʔapəˈtit]. 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: "Formel für ein gutes gemeinsames Essen, auf dessen Bekömmlichkeit und Wohlschmecken".

No misspelling variants are generated for guten Appetit 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 guten Appetit, spelled G-U-T-E-N- -A-P-P-E-T-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Formel für ein gutes gemeinsames Essen, auf dessen Bekömmlichkeit und Wohlschmecken

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guten Appetit"?
"guten Appetit" is spelled G-U-T-E-N- -A-P-P-E-T-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌɡutn̩ ˌʔapəˈtit].
What does "guten Appetit" mean?
As a phrase, "guten Appetit" means: Formel für ein gutes gemeinsames Essen, auf dessen Bekömmlichkeit und Wohlschmecken
How do you pronounce "guten Appetit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guten Appetit" is [ˌɡutn̩ ˌʔapəˈtit]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guten Appetit" come from?
"guten Appetit" 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.