letní čas
[ˈlɛtɲiː t͡sas]
The verdict
“letní čas” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Zeitperiode, bei der in den Sommermonaten die Zeit nicht entsprechend der Zeitzonen erfolgt, sondern um einen bestimmten Wert (in der Regel 1 Stunde) erhöht wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | letní čas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈlɛtɲiː t͡sas] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “letní čas” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for letní čas is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlɛtɲiː t͡sas]. 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: "Zeitperiode, bei der in den Sommermonaten die Zeit nicht entsprechend der Zeitzonen erfolgt, sondern um einen bestimmten Wert (in der Regel 1 Stunde) erhöht wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for letní čas 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 letní čas, spelled L-E-T-N-Í- -Č-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zeitperiode, bei der in den Sommermonaten die Zeit nicht entsprechend der Zeitzonen erfolgt, sondern um einen bestimmten Wert (in der Regel 1 Stunde) erhöht wird
This word in other languages
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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Using “letní čas”
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- The one correct German spelling is L-E-T-N-Í- -Č-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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