indulge
Letters
7 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
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indulge is aGermanverb. It means: etwas nachgeben, etwas frönen, etwas (in vollen Zügen) genießen, sich gütlich tun an Pronounced [ɪnˈdʌldʒ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indulge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɪnˈdʌldʒ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for indulge is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪnˈdʌldʒ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for indulge 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 indulge, spelled I-N-D-U-L-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas nachgeben, etwas frönen, etwas (in vollen Zügen) genießen, sich gütlich tun an
- 2sich einen genehmigen
- 3jemanden verwöhnen, jemanden verhätscheln (beispielsweise ein Kind), jemandem nachgeben, jemanden gewähren lassen, nachsichtig sein
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