Haftschale

/[ˈhaftˌʃaːlə]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Haftschale is aGermannoun. It means: als Sehhilfe anstelle einer Brille getragene, ehemals aus Glas, heutzutage aus verschiedenen Kunststoffen gefertigte kleine, dünne Linse, die direkt vor die Pupille platziert wird, wo sie durch Kon... Pronounced [ˈhaftˌʃaːlə].

Key facts for Haftschale
PropertyValue
HeadwordHaftschale
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈhaftˌʃaːlə]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Haftschale 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 Haftschale is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhaftˌʃaːlə]. 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: "als Sehhilfe anstelle einer Brille getragene, ehemals aus Glas, heutzutage aus verschiedenen Kunststoffen gefertigte kleine, dünne Linse, die direkt vor die Pupille platziert wird, wo sie durch Kon...".

No misspelling variants are generated for Haftschale 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 Haftschale, spelled H-A-F-T-S-C-H-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    als Sehhilfe anstelle einer Brille getragene, ehemals aus Glas, heutzutage aus verschiedenen Kunststoffen gefertigte kleine, dünne Linse, die direkt vor die Pupille platziert wird, wo sie durch Kontakt mit der Augenflüssigkeit haften bleibt

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Haftschale"?
"Haftschale" is spelled H-A-F-T-S-C-H-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈhaftˌʃaːlə].
What does "Haftschale" mean?
As a noun, "Haftschale" means: als Sehhilfe anstelle einer Brille getragene, ehemals aus Glas, heutzutage aus verschiedenen Kunststoffen gefertigte kleine, dünne Linse, die direkt vor die Pupille platziert wird, wo sie durch Kon...
How do you pronounce "Haftschale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Haftschale" is [ˈhaftˌʃaːlə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Haftschale" come from?
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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.