öffentliches Telefon

/[ˈœfn̩tlɪçəs teləˈfoːn]/ noun

Letters

20 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

öffentliches Telefon is aGermannoun. It means: gegen Bezahlung von jedermann nutzbares Telefon im öffentlichen Raum Pronounced [ˈœfn̩tlɪçəs teləˈfoːn].

Key facts for öffentliches Telefon
PropertyValue
Headwordöffentliches Telefon
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈœfn̩tlɪçəs teləˈfoːn]
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

öffentliches Telefon 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 Telefon is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈœfn̩tlɪçəs teləˈfoːn]. 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: "gegen Bezahlung von jedermann nutzbares Telefon im öffentlichen Raum".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    gegen Bezahlung von jedermann nutzbares Telefon im öffentlichen Raum

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "öffentliches Telefon"?
"öffentliches Telefon" is spelled Ö-F-F-E-N-T-L-I-C-H-E-S- -T-E-L-E-F-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈœfn̩tlɪçəs teləˈfoːn].
What does "öffentliches Telefon" mean?
As a noun, "öffentliches Telefon" means: gegen Bezahlung von jedermann nutzbares Telefon im öffentlichen Raum
How do you pronounce "öffentliches Telefon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "öffentliches Telefon" is [ˈœfn̩tlɪçəs teləˈfoːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "öffentliches Telefon" come from?
"öffentliches Telefon" 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.