native speaker

/[ˈneɪtɪv ˈspiːkə]/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

native speaker is aGermannoun. It means: eine Person, die eine bestimmte Sprache als Muttersprache beherrscht. In der generativen Grammatik in der speziellen Version des idealen Sprecher-Hörers derjenige, der seine Sprache ohne jede Einsc... Pronounced [ˈneɪtɪv ˈspiːkə].

Key facts for native speaker
PropertyValue
Headwordnative speaker
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈneɪtɪv ˈspiːkə]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

native speaker 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 native speaker is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈneɪtɪv ˈspiːkə]. 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 Person, die eine bestimmte Sprache als Muttersprache beherrscht. In der generativen Grammatik in der speziellen Version des idealen Sprecher-Hörers derjenige, der seine Sprache ohne jede Einsc...".

No misspelling variants are generated for native speaker 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 native speaker, spelled N-A-T-I-V-E- -S-P-E-A-K-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine Person, die eine bestimmte Sprache als Muttersprache beherrscht. In der generativen Grammatik in der speziellen Version des idealen Sprecher-Hörers derjenige, der seine Sprache ohne jede Einschränkung und Störung beherrscht und dessen Kompetenz die Grammatik wiedergeben soll

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "native speaker"?
"native speaker" is spelled N-A-T-I-V-E- -S-P-E-A-K-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈneɪtɪv ˈspiːkə].
What does "native speaker" mean?
As a noun, "native speaker" means: eine Person, die eine bestimmte Sprache als Muttersprache beherrscht. In der generativen Grammatik in der speziellen Version des idealen Sprecher-Hörers derjenige, der seine Sprache ohne jede Einsc...
How do you pronounce "native speaker"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "native speaker" is [ˈneɪtɪv ˈspiːkə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "native speaker" come from?
"native speaker" 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.