Offenbachs am Main
The verdict
“Offenbachs am Main” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Offenbach am Main
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Offenbachs am Main |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔfn̩ˌbaxs am maɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Offenbachs am Main” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Offenbachs am Main is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔfn̩ˌbaxs am maɪ̯n]. 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: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Offenbach am Main".
No misspelling variants are generated for Offenbachs am Main 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 Offenbachs am Main, spelled O-F-F-E-N-B-A-C-H-S- -A-M- -M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Offenbach am Main
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is O-F-F-E-N-B-A-C-H-S- -A-M- -M-A-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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