raw material

/[…]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

raw material is aGermannoun. It means: Rohmaterial, Rohstoff; Material, bevor es verarbeitet oder in seine endgültige Form gebracht wurde Pronounced […].

Key facts for raw material
PropertyValue
Headwordraw material
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for raw material is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "Rohmaterial, Rohstoff; Material, bevor es verarbeitet oder in seine endgültige Form gebracht wurde".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for raw material 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 raw material, spelled R-A-W- -M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rohmaterial, Rohstoff; Material, bevor es verarbeitet oder in seine endgültige Form gebracht wurde

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "raw material"?
"raw material" is spelled R-A-W- -M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "raw material" mean?
As a noun, "raw material" means: Rohmaterial, Rohstoff; Material, bevor es verarbeitet oder in seine endgültige Form gebracht wurde
How do you pronounce "raw material"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "raw material" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "raw material" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.