əqrəb
Letters
5 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
əqrəb is aGermannoun. It means: Spinnentier mit zwei kräftigen Scheren am Vorderkörper und einem Giftstachel am Hinterleib; Skorpion Pronounced [æɡˈɾæb].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | əqrəb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [æɡˈɾæb] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for əqrəb is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [æɡˈɾæb]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for əqrəb 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 əqrəb, spelled Ə-Q-R-Ə-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Spinnentier mit zwei kräftigen Scheren am Vorderkörper und einem Giftstachel am Hinterleib; Skorpion
- 2Teil eines Messgeräts oder einer Uhr, der den gemessenen Wert oder eine Richtung anzeigt; Zeiger
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