lebende Fossilien
[ˌleːbn̩də fɔˈsiːli̯ən]
The verdict
“lebende Fossilien” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nominativ Plural der starken Deklination des Substantivs lebendes Fossil
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lebende Fossilien |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌleːbn̩də fɔˈsiːli̯ən] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lebende Fossilien” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for lebende Fossilien is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌleːbn̩də fɔˈsiːli̯ən]. 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 lebende Fossilien 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 lebende Fossilien, spelled L-E-B-E-N-D-E- -F-O-S-S-I-L-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural der starken Deklination des Substantivs lebendes Fossil
- 2Akkusativ Plural der starken Deklination des Substantivs lebendes Fossil
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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