Oberbürgermeister

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The German entry for Oberbürgermeister is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoːbɐˌbʏʁɡɐmaɪ̯stɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,215 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Titel für das Stadtoberhaupt einer größeren Stadt in der Bundesrepublik".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 26 documented wrong-spelling variants for Oberbürgermeister, with forms such as "boerbürgermeister", "obberbürgermeister", and "obebrürgermeister". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Oberbürgermeisters", "Oberbürgermeisterin", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Oberbürgermeister, spelled O-B-E-R-B-Ü-R-G-E-R-M-E-I-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.