Irish Coffee
The verdict
“Irish Coffee” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: in einem hitzebeständigen Stielglas unter einer Haube aus geschlagener Sahne servierter Kaffee, der zudem mit (braunem) Zucker gesüßt und mit einem Schuss irischen Whiskeys versetzt ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Irish Coffee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯ʁɪʃ ˈkɔfi] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Irish Coffee” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Irish Coffee is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯ʁɪʃ ˈkɔfi]. 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: "in einem hitzebeständigen Stielglas unter einer Haube aus geschlagener Sahne servierter Kaffee, der zudem mit (braunem) Zucker gesüßt und mit einem Schuss irischen Whiskeys versetzt ist".
No misspelling variants are generated for Irish Coffee 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 Irish Coffee, spelled I-R-I-S-H- -C-O-F-F-E-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in einem hitzebeständigen Stielglas unter einer Haube aus geschlagener Sahne servierter Kaffee, der zudem mit (braunem) Zucker gesüßt und mit einem Schuss irischen Whiskeys versetzt ist
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Using “Irish Coffee”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is I-R-I-S-H- -C-O-F-F-E-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaɪ̯ʁɪʃ ˈkɔfi] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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