Maul- und Klauenseuche
The verdict
“Maul- und Klauenseuche” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine durch Viren hervorgerufene, hochinfektiöse Tierseuche bei Wiederkäuern mit Bläschenbildung im Maul und an den Klauen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maul- und Klauenseuche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmaʊ̯l ʊnt ˈklaʊ̯ənˌzɔɪ̯çə] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Maul- und Klauenseuche” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Maul- und Klauenseuche is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaʊ̯l ʊnt ˈklaʊ̯ənˌzɔɪ̯çə]. 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: "eine durch Viren hervorgerufene, hochinfektiöse Tierseuche bei Wiederkäuern mit Bläschenbildung im Maul und an den Klauen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Maul- und Klauenseuche 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 Maul- und Klauenseuche, spelled M-A-U-L--- -U-N-D- -K-L-A-U-E-N-S-E-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine durch Viren hervorgerufene, hochinfektiöse Tierseuche bei Wiederkäuern mit Bläschenbildung im Maul und an den Klauen
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- The one correct German spelling is M-A-U-L--- -U-N-D- -K-L-A-U-E-N-S-E-U-C-H-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmaʊ̯l ʊnt ˈklaʊ̯ənˌzɔɪ̯çə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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