Kafir

/[ˈkaːfɪʁ]/ noun

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5 characters

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German

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Kafir is aGermannoun. It means: Islam; Person, die nicht an (den aus Sicht des muslimischen Sprechers einzigen, wahren und dergleichen) Gott und die diesem huldigenden islamischen Lehren glaubt und somit (aus muslimischer Sicht) ... Pronounced [ˈkaːfɪʁ].

Key facts for Kafir
PropertyValue
HeadwordKafir
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkaːfɪʁ]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Kafir is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Kafir is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaːfɪʁ]. 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: "Islam; Person, die nicht an (den aus Sicht des muslimischen Sprechers einzigen, wahren und dergleichen) Gott und die diesem huldigenden islamischen Lehren glaubt und somit (aus muslimischer Sicht) ...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Kafir 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 Kafir, spelled K-A-F-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Islam; Person, die nicht an (den aus Sicht des muslimischen Sprechers einzigen, wahren und dergleichen) Gott und die diesem huldigenden islamischen Lehren glaubt und somit (aus muslimischer Sicht) die göttliche Wahrheit durch Irr- oder Unglaube in Frage stellt, leugnet und/oder verwischt

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How do you spell "Kafir"?
"Kafir" is spelled K-A-F-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkaːfɪʁ].
What does "Kafir" mean?
As a noun, "Kafir" means: Islam; Person, die nicht an (den aus Sicht des muslimischen Sprechers einzigen, wahren und dergleichen) Gott und die diesem huldigenden islamischen Lehren glaubt und somit (aus muslimischer Sicht) ...
How do you pronounce "Kafir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Kafir" is [ˈkaːfɪʁ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Kafir" come from?
"Kafir" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.