Karibisches Meer
The verdict
“Karibisches Meer” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nebenmeer des Atlantik, bildet zusammen mit dem Golf von Mexiko das Amerikanische Mittelmeer
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Karibisches Meer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kaˌʁiːbɪʃəs ˈmeːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Karibisches Meer” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Karibisches Meer is 16 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˌʁiːbɪʃəs ˈmeːɐ̯]. 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: "Nebenmeer des Atlantik, bildet zusammen mit dem Golf von Mexiko das Amerikanische Mittelmeer".
No misspelling variants are generated for Karibisches Meer 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 Karibisches Meer, spelled K-A-R-I-B-I-S-C-H-E-S- -M-E-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nebenmeer des Atlantik, bildet zusammen mit dem Golf von Mexiko das Amerikanische Mittelmeer
This word in other languages
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "Karibisches Meer"?
What does "Karibisches Meer" mean?
How do you pronounce "Karibisches Meer"?
What language does "Karibisches Meer" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “Karibisches Meer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-A-R-I-B-I-S-C-H-E-S- -M-E-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˌʁiːbɪʃəs ˈmeːɐ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter K in our German index: