male an

/[ˌmaːlə ˈan]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

male an is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs anmalen Pronounced [ˌmaːlə ˈan].

Key facts for male an
PropertyValue
Headwordmale an
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˌmaːlə ˈan]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for male an is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌmaːlə ˈan]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for male an 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 male an, spelled M-A-L-E- -A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs anmalen
  2. 2
    1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs anmalen
  3. 3
    1. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs anmalen
  4. 4
    3. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs anmalen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "male an"?
"male an" is spelled M-A-L-E- -A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌmaːlə ˈan].
What does "male an" mean?
As a verb, "male an" means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs anmalen
How do you pronounce "male an"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "male an" is [ˌmaːlə ˈan]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "male an" come from?
"male an" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.