in medias res
Letters
13 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
in medias res is aGermanphrase. It means: plötzlicher Einstieg in die Handlung Pronounced [ɪn ˌmeːdi̯aːs ˈʁeːs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | in medias res |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɪn ˌmeːdi̯aːs ˈʁeːs] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for in medias res is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪn ˌmeːdi̯aːs ˈʁeːs]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for in medias res 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 in medias res, spelled I-N- -M-E-D-I-A-S- -R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1plötzlicher Einstieg in die Handlung
- 2unmittelbar und ohne Umschweife zur Sache; direkt auf den Punkt/zur Sache kommend
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