Kaliko
Letters
6 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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Kaliko is aGermannoun. It means: feines und sehr dichtes Baumwollgewebe, das häufig in appretierter Form für Bucheinbände verwendet wird Pronounced [ˈkaliko].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaliko |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaliko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Kaliko is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaliko]. 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: "feines und sehr dichtes Baumwollgewebe, das häufig in appretierter Form für Bucheinbände verwendet wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kaliko 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 Kaliko, spelled K-A-L-I-K-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1feines und sehr dichtes Baumwollgewebe, das häufig in appretierter Form für Bucheinbände verwendet wird
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