offenes Meer
The verdict
“offenes Meer” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bereich des Meeres, auf dem keinerlei Festland ist, keine natürlichen Hindernisse vorhanden sind
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | offenes Meer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔfənəs ˈmeːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “offenes Meer” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for offenes Meer is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔfənəs ˈmeːɐ̯]. 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: "Bereich des Meeres, auf dem keinerlei Festland ist, keine natürlichen Hindernisse vorhanden sind".
No misspelling variants are generated for offenes Meer 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 offenes Meer, spelled O-F-F-E-N-E-S- -M-E-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bereich des Meeres, auf dem keinerlei Festland ist, keine natürlichen Hindernisse vorhanden sind
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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-E-S- -M-E-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈɔfənəs ˈmeːɐ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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