losmachen

/[ˈloːsˌmaxn̩]/ verb

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9 characters

Language

German

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losmachen is aGermanverb. It means: bewirken, das etwas nicht mehr fest angebracht, verbunden ist; jemanden von seinen Fesseln befreien Pronounced [ˈloːsˌmaxn̩].

Key facts for losmachen
PropertyValue
Headwordlosmachen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈloːsˌmaxn̩]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

losmachen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for losmachen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈloːsˌmaxn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for losmachen 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 losmachen, spelled L-O-S-M-A-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    bewirken, das etwas nicht mehr fest angebracht, verbunden ist; jemanden von seinen Fesseln befreien
  2. 2
    sich von etwas frei machen
  3. 3
    von etwas (zumeist als lästig, störend, unangenehm Empfundenen) loskommen; sich von einer Tätigkeit freimachen
  4. 4
    vom Anlegeplatz (Kai oder dergleichen) wegfahren
  5. 5
    sich bemühen, etwas zügig zu erledigen, mit etwas zügig voranzukommen; aufhören zu trödeln
  6. 6
    einen Ort verlassen (um etwas zu unternehmen)
  7. 7
    etwas (entschlossen, ungestüm) in Angriff nehmen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "losmachen"?
"losmachen" is spelled L-O-S-M-A-C-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈloːsˌmaxn̩].
What does "losmachen" mean?
As a verb, "losmachen" means: bewirken, das etwas nicht mehr fest angebracht, verbunden ist; jemanden von seinen Fesseln befreien
How do you pronounce "losmachen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "losmachen" is [ˈloːsˌmaxn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "losmachen" come from?
"losmachen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.