Quadratur des Kreises
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21 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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Quadratur des Kreises is aGermanphrase. It means: Die (unlösbare!) Aufgabe, mit Zirkel und Lineal ein Quadrat mit demselben Flächeninhalt eines gegebenen Kreises zu konstruieren Pronounced [kvadʁaˈtuːɐ̯ dɛs ˈkʁaɪ̯zəs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quadratur des Kreises |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kvadʁaˈtuːɐ̯ dɛs ˈkʁaɪ̯zəs] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Quadratur des Kreises is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kvadʁaˈtuːɐ̯ dɛs ˈkʁaɪ̯zəs]. 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 Quadratur des Kreises 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 Quadratur des Kreises, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-A-T-U-R- -D-E-S- -K-R-E-I-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Die (unlösbare!) Aufgabe, mit Zirkel und Lineal ein Quadrat mit demselben Flächeninhalt eines gegebenen Kreises zu konstruieren
- 2eine unlösbare Aufgabe
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