Nervus facialis

/[ˌnɛʁvʊs faˈt͡si̯aːlɪs]/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

German

word origin

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0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

Nervus facialis is aGermannoun. It means: der Gesichtsnerv Pronounced [ˌnɛʁvʊs faˈt͡si̯aːlɪs].

Key facts for Nervus facialis
PropertyValue
HeadwordNervus facialis
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˌnɛʁvʊs faˈt͡si̯aːlɪs]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Nervus facialis is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌnɛʁvʊs faˈt͡si̯aːlɪs]. 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: "der Gesichtsnerv".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Nervus facialis 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 Nervus facialis, spelled N-E-R-V-U-S- -F-A-C-I-A-L-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    der Gesichtsnerv

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Nervus facialis"?
"Nervus facialis" is spelled N-E-R-V-U-S- -F-A-C-I-A-L-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌnɛʁvʊs faˈt͡si̯aːlɪs].
What does "Nervus facialis" mean?
As a noun, "Nervus facialis" means: der Gesichtsnerv
How do you pronounce "Nervus facialis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Nervus facialis" is [ˌnɛʁvʊs faˈt͡si̯aːlɪs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Nervus facialis" come from?
"Nervus facialis" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.