lockere Apposition

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for lockere Apposition is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlɔkəʁə apoziˈt͡si̯oːn]. 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: "die Form der Apposition, die eine weniger enge Verbindung mit dem Bezugsnomen eingeht als die enge Apposition; sie wird nachgestellt und im Schriftbild durch ein Komma abgetrennt".

No misspelling variants are generated for lockere Apposition 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 lockere Apposition, spelled L-O-C-K-E-R-E- -A-P-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.