Quinkunx
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Language
German
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Quinkunx is aGermannoun. It means: antike römische Münze im Wert von fünf Unciae; allgemein für fünf Unzen oder fünf Zwölftel, zum Beispiel den Winkelabstand von 150° in der Astrologie Pronounced [ˈkvɪŋkʊŋks].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quinkunx |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkvɪŋkʊŋks] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Quinkunx is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkvɪŋkʊŋks]. 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 Quinkunx 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 Quinkunx, spelled Q-U-I-N-K-U-N-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1antike römische Münze im Wert von fünf Unciae; allgemein für fünf Unzen oder fünf Zwölftel, zum Beispiel den Winkelabstand von 150° in der Astrologie
- 2Anordnung von fünf Objekten, wobei vier die Ecken eines Quadrats bilden und das fünfte in der Mitte steht, zum Beispiel die fünf Augen auf einem Spielwürfel
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