Nyala
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5 characters
Language
German
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Nyala is aGermannoun. It means: Antilope, die im südöstlichen Afrika vorkommt (Nyala angasii, Syn.: Tragelaphus angasii) Pronounced [ˈnjaːla].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nyala |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnjaːla] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Nyala is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnjaːla]. 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: "Antilope, die im südöstlichen Afrika vorkommt (Nyala angasii, Syn.: Tragelaphus angasii)".
No misspelling variants are generated for Nyala 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 Nyala, spelled N-Y-A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Antilope, die im südöstlichen Afrika vorkommt (Nyala angasii, Syn.: Tragelaphus angasii)
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