Hail Mary

/[…]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Hail Mary is aGermannoun. It means: sehr langer Pass, der nur eine geringe Chance hat, gefangen zu werden Pronounced […].

Key facts for Hail Mary
PropertyValue
HeadwordHail Mary
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Hail Mary 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 Hail Mary is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "sehr langer Pass, der nur eine geringe Chance hat, gefangen zu werden".

No misspelling variants are generated for Hail Mary 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 Hail Mary, spelled H-A-I-L- -M-A-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sehr langer Pass, der nur eine geringe Chance hat, gefangen zu werden

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Hail Mary"?
"Hail Mary" is spelled H-A-I-L- -M-A-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Hail Mary" mean?
As a noun, "Hail Mary" means: sehr langer Pass, der nur eine geringe Chance hat, gefangen zu werden
How do you pronounce "Hail Mary"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Hail Mary" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Hail Mary" come from?
"Hail Mary" 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.