illiterat

/[ˈɪlɪtəʁaːt]/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

illiterat is anGermanadj. It means: nicht (an einer Schule/Hochschule, wissenschaftlich, mit und durch Bücher) gebildet Pronounced [ˈɪlɪtəʁaːt].

Key facts for illiterat
PropertyValue
Headwordilliterat
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ˈɪlɪtəʁaːt]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

illiterat 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 illiterat is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɪlɪtəʁaːt]. 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: "nicht (an einer Schule/Hochschule, wissenschaftlich, mit und durch Bücher) gebildet".

No misspelling variants are generated for illiterat 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 illiterat, spelled I-L-L-I-T-E-R-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    nicht (an einer Schule/Hochschule, wissenschaftlich, mit und durch Bücher) gebildet

Antonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "illiterat"?
"illiterat" is spelled I-L-L-I-T-E-R-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɪlɪtəʁaːt].
What does "illiterat" mean?
As an adj, "illiterat" means: nicht (an einer Schule/Hochschule, wissenschaftlich, mit und durch Bücher) gebildet
How do you pronounce "illiterat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "illiterat" is [ˈɪlɪtəʁaːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "illiterat" come from?
"illiterat" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

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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.