raccoon
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7 characters
Language
German
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raccoon is aGermannoun. It means: (ursprünglich nur in den Wäldern Nordamerikas beheimateter, seit spätestens Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts auch in Europa, im Kaukasus und in Japan vorkommender, mittlerweile auch in Parks und in von M... Pronounced [rəˈkuːn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raccoon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [rəˈkuːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for raccoon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [rəˈkuːn]. 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 raccoon 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 raccoon, spelled R-A-C-C-O-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(ursprünglich nur in den Wäldern Nordamerikas beheimateter, seit spätestens Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts auch in Europa, im Kaukasus und in Japan vorkommender, mittlerweile auch in Parks und in von Menschen besiedelten Orten vordringender und sich Futter aus Abfallbehältern holender) nachtaktiver, allesfressender Vertreter der Familie der Kleinbären (Procyon lotor) mit kurzer, spitzer Schnauze, einer maskenartigen, schwarz gefärbten Gesichtszeichnung um die Augen und langem, buschigem, schwarz geringeltem Schwanz, dessen Fell unterschiedliche Grau- und/oder Brauntöne besitzt
- 2Pelz des unter [1] beschriebenen Tieres
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