Lappentaucher

Rare enough to double-check

Lappentaucher is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlapn̩ˌtaʊ̯xɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weltweit verbreiteter Vogel, der an Wasser gebunden ist, taucht und dessen Zehen nicht wie bei vielen anderen Wasservögeln mit Schwimmhäuten verbunden sind, sondern breite Schwimmlappen tragen".

Lappentaucher doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Lappentaucher, spelled L-A-P-P-E-N-T-A-U-C-H-E-R.