Kontaktglas
Letters
11 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Kontaktglas is aGermannoun. It means: als Sehhilfe anstelle einer Brille getragene, ehemals aus Glas, heutzutage aus verschiedenen Kunststoffen gefertigte kleine, dünne Linse, die direkt vor die Pupille platziert wird, wo sie durch Kon... Pronounced [kɔnˈtaktˌɡlaːs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kontaktglas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔnˈtaktˌɡlaːs] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Kontaktglas is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɔnˈtaktˌɡlaːs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Kontaktglas 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 Kontaktglas, spelled K-O-N-T-A-K-T-G-L-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1als Sehhilfe anstelle einer Brille getragene, ehemals aus Glas, heutzutage aus verschiedenen Kunststoffen gefertigte kleine, dünne Linse, die direkt vor die Pupille platziert wird, wo sie durch Kontakt mit der Augenflüssigkeit haften bleibt
- 2trichterförmiges Lupenglas, das auf die zuvor lokal betäubte Hornhaut aufgesetzt wird und vor allem der Betrachtung des Augenhintergrundes (Funduskopie) oder der Untersuchung des Kammerwinkels (Gonioskopie) dient
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