Kürass
Letters
6 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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Kürass is aGermannoun. It means: ursprünglich lederner, später metallener Brustpanzer (mit Übergangsformen), der vom 15. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert gebräuchlich war Pronounced [ˈkyːʁas].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kürass |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkyːʁas] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Kürass is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkyːʁas]. 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: "ursprünglich lederner, später metallener Brustpanzer (mit Übergangsformen), der vom 15. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert gebräuchlich war".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kürass 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 Kürass, spelled K-Ü-R-A-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ursprünglich lederner, später metallener Brustpanzer (mit Übergangsformen), der vom 15. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert gebräuchlich war
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