Rattenkönig
Letters
11 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Rattenkönig is aGermannoun. It means: angebliches, unter Ratten vorkommendes Phänomen, bei dem die Schwänze einer Anzahl junger Ratten verknoten Pronounced [ˈʁatn̩ˌkøːnɪç].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rattenkönig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁatn̩ˌkøːnɪç] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Rattenkönig is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁatn̩ˌkøːnɪç]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Rattenkönig 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 Rattenkönig, spelled R-A-T-T-E-N-K-Ö-N-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1angebliches, unter Ratten vorkommendes Phänomen, bei dem die Schwänze einer Anzahl junger Ratten verknoten
- 2Ratte als Herrscher über andere Ratten/Tiere, mit Herrscherattribut oder auch: die sich von anderen ernähren lässt
- 3etwas Unentwirrbares
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