Mimikry

/[ˈmimikʁi]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Mimikry is aGermannoun. It means: evolutionäre Strategie einer Tierart, ihr Aussehen einer zweiten Tierart anzupassen, so dass sie von dritten Arten nicht erkannt oder gemieden wird Pronounced [ˈmimikʁi].

Key facts for Mimikry
PropertyValue
HeadwordMimikry
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈmimikʁi]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Mimikry is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Mimikry is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmimikʁi]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for Mimikry 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 Mimikry, spelled M-I-M-I-K-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    evolutionäre Strategie einer Tierart, ihr Aussehen einer zweiten Tierart anzupassen, so dass sie von dritten Arten nicht erkannt oder gemieden wird
  2. 2
    im übertragenen Wortsinn gleichbedeutend mit einer Anpassung zum eigenen Schutz oder zur Täuschung anderer
  3. 3
    das Phänomen, dass Menschen andere Menschen unbewusst und automatisch nachahmen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Mimikry"?
"Mimikry" is spelled M-I-M-I-K-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmimikʁi].
What does "Mimikry" mean?
As a noun, "Mimikry" means: evolutionäre Strategie einer Tierart, ihr Aussehen einer zweiten Tierart anzupassen, so dass sie von dritten Arten nicht erkannt oder gemieden wird
How do you pronounce "Mimikry"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Mimikry" is [ˈmimikʁi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Mimikry" come from?
"Mimikry" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.