hinterer Gaumen

/[ˌhɪntəʁɐ ˈɡaʊ̯mən]/ phrase

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15 characters

Language

German

word origin

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0

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hinterer Gaumen is aGermanphrase. It means: der hintere, „weiche“ Teil des Gaumens, das Velum Pronounced [ˌhɪntəʁɐ ˈɡaʊ̯mən].

Key facts for hinterer Gaumen
PropertyValue
Headwordhinterer Gaumen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌhɪntəʁɐ ˈɡaʊ̯mən]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hinterer Gaumen 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 hinterer Gaumen is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌhɪntəʁɐ ˈɡaʊ̯mən]. 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: "der hintere, „weiche“ Teil des Gaumens, das Velum".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    der hintere, „weiche“ Teil des Gaumens, das Velum

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hinterer Gaumen"?
"hinterer Gaumen" is spelled H-I-N-T-E-R-E-R- -G-A-U-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌhɪntəʁɐ ˈɡaʊ̯mən].
What does "hinterer Gaumen" mean?
As a phrase, "hinterer Gaumen" means: der hintere, „weiche“ Teil des Gaumens, das Velum
How do you pronounce "hinterer Gaumen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hinterer Gaumen" is [ˌhɪntəʁɐ ˈɡaʊ̯mən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hinterer Gaumen" come from?
"hinterer Gaumen" 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.