öffentlicher Raum

/[ˈœfn̩tlɪçɐ ˈʁaʊ̯m]/ phrase

Letters

17 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

öffentlicher Raum is aGermanphrase. It means: gemeinschaftlich genutzte Flächen und Räume Pronounced [ˈœfn̩tlɪçɐ ˈʁaʊ̯m].

Key facts for öffentlicher Raum
PropertyValue
Headwordöffentlicher Raum
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈœfn̩tlɪçɐ ˈʁaʊ̯m]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

öffentlicher Raum 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 öffentlicher Raum is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈœfn̩tlɪçɐ ˈʁaʊ̯m]. 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: "gemeinschaftlich genutzte Flächen und Räume".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for öffentlicher Raum 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 öffentlicher Raum, spelled Ö-F-F-E-N-T-L-I-C-H-E-R- -R-A-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    gemeinschaftlich genutzte Flächen und Räume

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "öffentlicher Raum"?
"öffentlicher Raum" is spelled Ö-F-F-E-N-T-L-I-C-H-E-R- -R-A-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈœfn̩tlɪçɐ ˈʁaʊ̯m].
What does "öffentlicher Raum" mean?
As a phrase, "öffentlicher Raum" means: gemeinschaftlich genutzte Flächen und Räume
How do you pronounce "öffentlicher Raum"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "öffentlicher Raum" is [ˈœfn̩tlɪçɐ ˈʁaʊ̯m]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "öffentlicher Raum" come from?
"öffentlicher Raum" 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.