Polymorphie
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11 characters
Language
German
word origin
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0
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Polymorphie is aGermannoun. It means: Vielgestaltigkeit Pronounced [polimɔʁˈfiː].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Polymorphie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [polimɔʁˈfiː] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Polymorphie is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [polimɔʁˈfiː]. 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 Polymorphie 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 Polymorphie, spelled P-O-L-Y-M-O-R-P-H-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vielgestaltigkeit
- 2das normale Vorkommen prinzipiell unterschiedlich gestalteter Individuen innerhalb einer Art wie beispielsweise die Polymorphie der verschiedenen Kasten bei staatenbildenden Insekten (Arbeiterinnen, Soldaten, Königin)
- 3das Auftreten einer Genvariation (eines Allels) in einer Population
- 4die Eigenschaften einiger chemischer Verbindungen in zwei oder mehreren Modifikationen zu kristallisieren
- 5der Umstand, dass verschiedene Klassen über Methoden mit demselben Namen verfügen können
- 6Vorhandensein von unterschiedlichen sprachlichen Ausdrucksformen für gleiche Bedeutungen oder grammatische Funktionen
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