mais ou menos
Letters
13 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
mais ou menos is aGermanphrase. It means: zur Vermeidung einer präzisen Beurteilung verwendete Floskel; ungefähr; circa Pronounced [majz‿ou ˈmenuz].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mais ou menos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [majz‿ou ˈmenuz] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for mais ou menos is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [majz‿ou ˈmenuz]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mais ou menos 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 mais ou menos, spelled M-A-I-S- -O-U- -M-E-N-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zur Vermeidung einer präzisen Beurteilung verwendete Floskel; ungefähr; circa
- 2verwendet, um zu Ausdruck zu bringen, dass man etwas nicht do gut kann
- 3quasi; mehr oder weniger
- 4mit mehr oder weniger Kraft; in einer anderen Weise; ungleich
- 5mathematisches Vorzeichen; (1) für einen Term, der sowohl positiv als auch negativ sein kann; (2) für den eingeschlossenen positiven und negativen Wert des Zahlenbereichs; für die Aufrundung oder Toleranzangabe eines Messwertes; Plusminuszeichen
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