Rebbe
Letters
5 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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Rebbe is aGermannoun. It means: jüdischer Gelehrter und Lehrer, auch geistliches Oberhaupt einer Gemeinde Pronounced [ˈʁɛbə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rebbe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁɛbə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Rebbe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁɛbə]. 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: "jüdischer Gelehrter und Lehrer, auch geistliches Oberhaupt einer Gemeinde".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Rebbe 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 Rebbe, spelled R-E-B-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jüdischer Gelehrter und Lehrer, auch geistliches Oberhaupt einer Gemeinde
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