Halbaffe
Letters
8 characters
Language
German
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Halbaffe is aGermannoun. It means: Verwandter der Affen mit spitzer Schnauze und meist sehr großen Augen; vor allem auf Madagaskar aber auch in Afrika und Südasien (Unterordnung Prosimiae) Pronounced [ˈhalpʔafə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Halbaffe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhalpʔafə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Halbaffe is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhalpʔafə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Halbaffe 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 Halbaffe, spelled H-A-L-B-A-F-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Verwandter der Affen mit spitzer Schnauze und meist sehr großen Augen; vor allem auf Madagaskar aber auch in Afrika und Südasien (Unterordnung Prosimiae)
- 2roher, primitiver, ungeschlachter Mann
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