paraşüt

/[pɑɾɑˈʃyt]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

paraşüt is aGermannoun. It means: rundes oder rechteckiges Fluggerät, das die Fallgeschwindigkeit eines angehängten Gegenstandes oder Menschen so stark bremst, dass die Landung problemlos durchgeführt werden kann; Fallschirm Pronounced [pɑɾɑˈʃyt].

Key facts for paraşüt
PropertyValue
Headwordparaşüt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pɑɾɑˈʃyt]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

paraşüt is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for paraşüt is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɑɾɑˈʃyt]. 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: "rundes oder rechteckiges Fluggerät, das die Fallgeschwindigkeit eines angehängten Gegenstandes oder Menschen so stark bremst, dass die Landung problemlos durchgeführt werden kann; Fallschirm".

No misspelling variants are generated for paraşüt 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 paraşüt, spelled P-A-R-A-Ş-Ü-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    rundes oder rechteckiges Fluggerät, das die Fallgeschwindigkeit eines angehängten Gegenstandes oder Menschen so stark bremst, dass die Landung problemlos durchgeführt werden kann; Fallschirm

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paraşüt"?
"paraşüt" is spelled P-A-R-A-Ş-Ü-T. The IPA pronunciation is [pɑɾɑˈʃyt].
What does "paraşüt" mean?
As a noun, "paraşüt" means: rundes oder rechteckiges Fluggerät, das die Fallgeschwindigkeit eines angehängten Gegenstandes oder Menschen so stark bremst, dass die Landung problemlos durchgeführt werden kann; Fallschirm
How do you pronounce "paraşüt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paraşüt" is [pɑɾɑˈʃyt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "paraşüt" come from?
"paraşüt" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.