Irrigation
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Irrigation is aGermannoun. It means: Zufuhr von Wasser zum Boden und zur Pflanze mit dem Ziel der Förderung des Pflanzenwachstums Pronounced [ɪʁiɡaˈt͡si̯oːn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Irrigation |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪʁiɡaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Irrigation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪʁiɡaˈt͡si̯oːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Irrigation 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 Irrigation, spelled I-R-R-I-G-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zufuhr von Wasser zum Boden und zur Pflanze mit dem Ziel der Förderung des Pflanzenwachstums
- 2Spülung eines Hohlraums im Körper (z.B. Mund, Darm, Blase) mit einer Flüssigkeit
- 3Spülung eines Hohlraums im Körper (z.B. Mund, Darm, Blase) mit einer Flüssigkeit
- 4zur Reinigung des Dickdarms vor einer Darmspiegelung oder Operation
- 5zur Entleerung des Darms bei Verstopfung (Obstipation)
- 6zur Behandlung bestimmter Krankheiten, z. B. bei entzündlicher Colitis ulcerosa
- 7zur Regulierung der Darmtätigkeit (Peristaltik) als spezielle Spülbehandlung bei Kolostomie-Patienten
- 8zur Entschlackung des Körpers in der Alternativmedizin
- 9Spülung eines Hohlraums im Körper (z.B. Mund, Darm, Blase) mit einer Flüssigkeit
- 10Spülung eines Hohlraums im Körper (z.B. Mund, Darm, Blase) mit einer Flüssigkeit
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