pavučina
The verdict
“pavučina” 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
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Netz zum Auffangen von kleinen Insekten, das Spinnen durch Weben von klebrigen Fäden erzeugen; Spinnennetz, Spinnwebe
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavučina |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpavʊt͡ʃɪna] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pavučina” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for pavučina is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpavʊt͡ʃɪna]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pavučina 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 pavučina, spelled P-A-V-U-Č-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Netz zum Auffangen von kleinen Insekten, das Spinnen durch Weben von klebrigen Fäden erzeugen; Spinnennetz, Spinnwebe
- 2etwas Verzweigtes, Ausgedehntes, das einem Spinnennetz [1] ähnelt; Netz, Netzwerk
Synonyms
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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Using “pavučina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-A-V-U-Č-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpavʊt͡ʃɪna] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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