Katzenmusik
Letters
11 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
Katzenmusik is aGermannoun. It means: (misstönendes) Geschrei der Katzen Pronounced [ˈkat͡sn̩muˌziːk].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Katzenmusik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkat͡sn̩muˌziːk] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Katzenmusik is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkat͡sn̩muˌziːk]. 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 Katzenmusik 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 Katzenmusik, spelled K-A-T-Z-E-N-M-U-S-I-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(misstönendes) Geschrei der Katzen
- 2misstönende, dissonante Musik
- 3soziale Sanktion, bei der von meist mehreren Personen ein Geschrei, Gejohle, eine absichtlich misstönende Musik gegenüber einer anderen Person aufgeführt wird, um ihr damit einen Schimpf anzutun
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