Luftschloss

/[ˈlʊftˌʃlɔs]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Luftschloss is aGermannoun. It means: etwas, das man sich wünscht oder erträumt, das aber nicht oder nur schwer zu realisieren ist Pronounced [ˈlʊftˌʃlɔs].

Key facts for Luftschloss
PropertyValue
HeadwordLuftschloss
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈlʊftˌʃlɔs]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Luftschloss 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 Luftschloss is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlʊftˌʃlɔs]. 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: "etwas, das man sich wünscht oder erträumt, das aber nicht oder nur schwer zu realisieren ist".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Luftschloss 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 Luftschloss, spelled L-U-F-T-S-C-H-L-O-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    etwas, das man sich wünscht oder erträumt, das aber nicht oder nur schwer zu realisieren ist

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Luftschloss"?
"Luftschloss" is spelled L-U-F-T-S-C-H-L-O-S-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈlʊftˌʃlɔs].
What does "Luftschloss" mean?
As a noun, "Luftschloss" means: etwas, das man sich wünscht oder erträumt, das aber nicht oder nur schwer zu realisieren ist
How do you pronounce "Luftschloss"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Luftschloss" is [ˈlʊftˌʃlɔs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Luftschloss" come from?
"Luftschloss" 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.