mapachín
The verdict
“mapachín” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (ursprünglich nur in den Wäldern Nordamerikas beheimateter, seit spätestens Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts auch in Europa, im Kaukasus und in Japan vorkommender, mittlerweile auch in Parks und in von M...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mapachín |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ma̠pa̠ˈt͡ʃĩn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mapachín” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for mapachín is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ma̠pa̠ˈt͡ʃĩn]. 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 mapachín 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 mapachín, spelled M-A-P-A-C-H-Í-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(ursprünglich nur in den Wäldern Nordamerikas beheimateter, seit spätestens Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts auch in Europa, im Kaukasus und in Japan vorkommender, mittlerweile auch in Parks und in von Menschen besiedelten Orten vordringender und sich Futter aus Abfallbehältern holender) nachtaktiver, allesfressender Vertreter der Familie der Kleinbären (Procyon lotor) mit kurzer, spitzer Schnauze, einer maskenartigen, schwarz gefärbten Gesichtszeichnung um die Augen und langem, buschigem, schwarz geringeltem Schwanz, dessen Fell unterschiedliche Grau- und/oder Brauntöne besitzt
- 2Penisknochen des unter [1] beschriebenen Tieres
- 3Pulver, das aus dem unter [2] genannten Penisknochens gewonnen wird und als Aphrodisiakum gilt
- 4mit dem unter [3] genannten Pulver vermengter Trank, dem eine aphrodisierende Wirkung zugeschrieben wird
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Using “mapachín”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-A-P-A-C-H-Í-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ma̠pa̠ˈt͡ʃĩn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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