Olympischen Spiele
The verdict
“Olympischen Spiele” 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: Nominativ Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs Olympische Spiele
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Olympischen Spiele |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˌlʏmpɪʃn̩ ˈʃpiːlə] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Olympischen Spiele” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Olympischen Spiele is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˌlʏmpɪʃn̩ ˈʃpiːlə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Olympischen Spiele 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 Olympischen Spiele, spelled O-L-Y-M-P-I-S-C-H-E-N- -S-P-I-E-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs Olympische Spiele
- 2Genitiv Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs Olympische Spiele
- 3Akkusativ Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs Olympische Spiele
- 4Nominativ Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs Olympische Spiele
- 5Genitiv Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs Olympische Spiele
- 6Akkusativ Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs Olympische Spiele
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is O-L-Y-M-P-I-S-C-H-E-N- -S-P-I-E-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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