öffentliches Leben

/[ˌœfn̩tlɪçəs ˈleːbn̩]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

öffentliches Leben is aGermanphrase. It means: Gesamtheit der gesellschaftlichen Aktivitäten und Begegnungen, die außerhalb des privaten Bereichs stattfinden (beispielsweise Kultur-, Bildungs- und Freizeitangebote, Gastronomie, Verkehr, Veranst... Pronounced [ˌœfn̩tlɪçəs ˈleːbn̩].

Key facts for öffentliches Leben
PropertyValue
Headwordöffentliches Leben
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌœfn̩tlɪçəs ˈleːbn̩]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

öffentliches Leben 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 öffentliches Leben is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌœfn̩tlɪçəs ˈleːbn̩]. 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: "Gesamtheit der gesellschaftlichen Aktivitäten und Begegnungen, die außerhalb des privaten Bereichs stattfinden (beispielsweise Kultur-, Bildungs- und Freizeitangebote, Gastronomie, Verkehr, Veranst...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for öffentliches Leben 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 öffentliches Leben, spelled Ö-F-F-E-N-T-L-I-C-H-E-S- -L-E-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Gesamtheit der gesellschaftlichen Aktivitäten und Begegnungen, die außerhalb des privaten Bereichs stattfinden (beispielsweise Kultur-, Bildungs- und Freizeitangebote, Gastronomie, Verkehr, Veranstaltungen, religiöse Treffen, auch die politische Öffentlichkeit)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "öffentliches Leben"?
"öffentliches Leben" is spelled Ö-F-F-E-N-T-L-I-C-H-E-S- -L-E-B-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌœfn̩tlɪçəs ˈleːbn̩].
What does "öffentliches Leben" mean?
As a phrase, "öffentliches Leben" means: Gesamtheit der gesellschaftlichen Aktivitäten und Begegnungen, die außerhalb des privaten Bereichs stattfinden (beispielsweise Kultur-, Bildungs- und Freizeitangebote, Gastronomie, Verkehr, Veranst...
How do you pronounce "öffentliches Leben"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "öffentliches Leben" is [ˌœfn̩tlɪçəs ˈleːbn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "öffentliches Leben" come from?
"öffentliches Leben" 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.