Prellbock
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9 characters
Language
German
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Prellbock is aGermannoun. It means: Vorrichtung am Ende eines Bahngleises, die mit starken Puffern versehen ist und verhindern soll, dass ein Gleisfahrzeug das Ende des Gleises überfährt Pronounced [ˈpʁɛlbɔk].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Prellbock |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpʁɛlbɔk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Prellbock is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpʁɛlbɔk]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Prellbock 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 Prellbock, spelled P-R-E-L-L-B-O-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vorrichtung am Ende eines Bahngleises, die mit starken Puffern versehen ist und verhindern soll, dass ein Gleisfahrzeug das Ende des Gleises überfährt
- 2jemand, der bei Konflikten (anderer) die Verärgerung abfedern muss oder der die Konsequenzen fremden Handelns zu tragen hat
- 3mit dem Ball zu überspielendes Hindernis in der Mitte des Spielfeldes, das zum Beispiel von einem Schwebebalken oder einem gespannten Gummiband gebildet wird
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