Melpomene
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9 characters
Language
German
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Melpomene is aGermanname. It means: Tochter des Zeus und der Mnemosyne; eine der neun Musen, die als Göttinnen der Künste und Wissenschaften agieren; Muse der Tragödie. Pronounced [mɛlˈpoːmene].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melpomene |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [mɛlˈpoːmene] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Melpomene is 9 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mɛlˈpoːmene]. 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: "Tochter des Zeus und der Mnemosyne; eine der neun Musen, die als Göttinnen der Künste und Wissenschaften agieren; Muse der Tragödie.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Melpomene in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Melpomene, spelled M-E-L-P-O-M-E-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tochter des Zeus und der Mnemosyne; eine der neun Musen, die als Göttinnen der Künste und Wissenschaften agieren; Muse der Tragödie.
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