makaber
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,531
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
makaber is anGermanadj. It means: eine groteske Form von Humor betreffend (oft im Zusammenhang mit Tod oder Krankheit verwendet) Pronounced [maˈkaːbɐ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | makaber |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [maˈkaːbɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for makaber is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈkaːbɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,531 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for makaber 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 makaber, spelled M-A-K-A-B-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine groteske Form von Humor betreffend (oft im Zusammenhang mit Tod oder Krankheit verwendet)
- 2unheimlich wirkend
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Frequency rank: #55,531 in German
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