Lichtmonat
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Lichtmonat is aGermannoun. It means: Entfernung, die das Licht in einem Monat im Vakuum zurücklegt; ungefähr ein Zwölftel eines Lichtjahres Pronounced [ˈlɪçtˌmoːnat].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lichtmonat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlɪçtˌmoːnat] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Lichtmonat is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlɪçtˌmoːnat]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Lichtmonat in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Lichtmonat, spelled L-I-C-H-T-M-O-N-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Entfernung, die das Licht in einem Monat im Vakuum zurücklegt; ungefähr ein Zwölftel eines Lichtjahres
- 229 Tage und 12 Stunden, nach denen der Mond wieder an der 'gleichen' Stelle steht
- 3der Monat Februar
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