Maure
Letters
5 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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Maure is aGermannoun. It means: Angehöriger der in Nordafrika als Nomaden lebenden Berberstämme, die im 7. Jahrhundert von den Arabern islamisiert wurden und diese bei ihrer Eroberung der iberischen Halbinsel als kämpfende Truppe... Pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ʁə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maure |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaʊ̯ʁə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Maure is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaʊ̯ʁə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Maure 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 Maure, spelled M-A-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Angehöriger der in Nordafrika als Nomaden lebenden Berberstämme, die im 7. Jahrhundert von den Arabern islamisiert wurden und diese bei ihrer Eroberung der iberischen Halbinsel als kämpfende Truppe unterstützten
- 2arabisch-berberische Mischbevölkerung im heutigen Nordwestafrika
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