Kakofonie
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Kakofonie is aGermannoun. It means: Laute und Lautverbindungen, die besonders hart, unangenehm oder unästhetisch klingen Pronounced [kakofoˈniː].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kakofonie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kakofoˈniː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Kakofonie is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kakofoˈniː]. 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 Kakofonie 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 Kakofonie, spelled K-A-K-O-F-O-N-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Laute und Lautverbindungen, die besonders hart, unangenehm oder unästhetisch klingen
- 2Töne/Klänge, die als besonders unangenehm empfunden werden
- 3generelle Uneinigkeit oder Disharmonie in einer bestimmten Frage
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