raton laveur

/[ʁatɔ̃ lavœʁ]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

German

word origin

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0

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raton laveur 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 [ʁatɔ̃ lavœʁ].

Key facts for raton laveur
PropertyValue
Headwordraton laveur
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʁatɔ̃ lavœʁ]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

raton laveur is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for raton laveur is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁatɔ̃ lavœʁ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(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...".

No misspelling variants are generated for raton laveur 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 raton laveur, spelled R-A-T-O-N- -L-A-V-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (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

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "raton laveur"?
"raton laveur" is spelled R-A-T-O-N- -L-A-V-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ʁatɔ̃ lavœʁ].
What does "raton laveur" mean?
As a noun, "raton laveur" 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...
How do you pronounce "raton laveur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "raton laveur" is [ʁatɔ̃ lavœʁ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "raton laveur" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.