mateřský
[ˈmatɛr̝̊skiː]
The verdict
“mateřský” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — mit der Mutter oder Mutterschaft zusammenhängend; mütterlich, Mutter-
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mateřský |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈmatɛr̝̊skiː] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mateřský” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for mateřský is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmatɛr̝̊skiː]. 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: "mit der Mutter oder Mutterschaft zusammenhängend; mütterlich, Mutter-".
No misspelling variants are generated for mateřský 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 mateřský, spelled M-A-T-E-Ř-S-K-Ý, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit der Mutter oder Mutterschaft zusammenhängend; mütterlich, Mutter-
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mateřský”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-A-T-E-Ř-S-K-Ý - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmatɛr̝̊skiː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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