laufenden Metern
The verdict
“laufenden Metern” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dativ Plural der starken Deklination des Substantivs laufender Meter
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laufenden Metern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌlaʊ̯fn̩dən ˈmeːtɐn] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laufenden Metern” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for laufenden Metern is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌlaʊ̯fn̩dən ˈmeːtɐn]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for laufenden Metern 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 laufenden Metern, spelled L-A-U-F-E-N-D-E-N- -M-E-T-E-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural der starken Deklination des Substantivs laufender Meter
- 2Dativ Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs laufender Meter
- 3Dativ Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs laufender Meter
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is L-A-U-F-E-N-D-E-N- -M-E-T-E-R-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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