Homo floresiensis

/[…]/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Homo floresiensis is aGermannoun. It means: wissenschaftlicher Name einer ausgestorbenen, kleinwüchsigen Art der Gattung Homo, die im September 2003 auf der indonesischen Insel Flores entdeckt wurde Pronounced […].

Key facts for Homo floresiensis
PropertyValue
HeadwordHomo floresiensis
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Homo floresiensis is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Homo floresiensis is 17 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: "wissenschaftlicher Name einer ausgestorbenen, kleinwüchsigen Art der Gattung Homo, die im September 2003 auf der indonesischen Insel Flores entdeckt wurde".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Homo floresiensis in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Homo floresiensis, spelled H-O-M-O- -F-L-O-R-E-S-I-E-N-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    wissenschaftlicher Name einer ausgestorbenen, kleinwüchsigen Art der Gattung Homo, die im September 2003 auf der indonesischen Insel Flores entdeckt wurde

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Homo floresiensis"?
"Homo floresiensis" is spelled H-O-M-O- -F-L-O-R-E-S-I-E-N-S-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Homo floresiensis" mean?
As a noun, "Homo floresiensis" means: wissenschaftlicher Name einer ausgestorbenen, kleinwüchsigen Art der Gattung Homo, die im September 2003 auf der indonesischen Insel Flores entdeckt wurde
How do you pronounce "Homo floresiensis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Homo floresiensis" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Homo floresiensis" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.