Litoral
[litoˈʁaːl]
The verdict
“Litoral” 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
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - der Lebensraum der ufernahen Zone von Seen und Meeren, in dem das ins Wasser fallende Licht noch für die Fotosynthese von pflanzlichen Organismen ausreicht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Litoral |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [litoˈʁaːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Litoral” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Litoral is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [litoˈʁaːl]. 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: "der Lebensraum der ufernahen Zone von Seen und Meeren, in dem das ins Wasser fallende Licht noch für die Fotosynthese von pflanzlichen Organismen ausreicht".
Litoral doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Litoral, spelled L-I-T-O-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1der Lebensraum der ufernahen Zone von Seen und Meeren, in dem das ins Wasser fallende Licht noch für die Fotosynthese von pflanzlichen Organismen ausreicht
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 “Litoral”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-I-T-O-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [litoˈʁaːl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.