Jakobsmuschel
Letters
13 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Jakobsmuschel is aGermannoun. It means: zwei zweischalige Muschelarten der Gattung Pecten (Mittelmeerpilgermuschel und große Pilgermuschel), welche wegen ihrer langgezogenen Streifen und Strahlen auch Kammmuschel oder Strahlenmuschel gen... Pronounced [ˈjaːkɔpsˌmʊʃl̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jakobsmuschel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjaːkɔpsˌmʊʃl̩] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Jakobsmuschel is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjaːkɔpsˌmʊʃl̩]. 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 Jakobsmuschel 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 Jakobsmuschel, spelled J-A-K-O-B-S-M-U-S-C-H-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zwei zweischalige Muschelarten der Gattung Pecten (Mittelmeerpilgermuschel und große Pilgermuschel), welche wegen ihrer langgezogenen Streifen und Strahlen auch Kammmuschel oder Strahlenmuschel genannt werden
- 2die von Jakobspilgern als Trinkgefäß und als kennzeichnendes Symbol benutzte Kammmuschel, die klassischerweise am Hut getragen wird
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