recepční
The verdict
“recepční” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Beschäftigter, der Gäste oder Besucher empfängt: Rezeptionist, Empfangschef, Portier
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recepční |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrɛt͡sɛpt͡ʃɲiː] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “recepční” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for recepční is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrɛt͡sɛpt͡ʃɲiː]. 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: "Beschäftigter, der Gäste oder Besucher empfängt: Rezeptionist, Empfangschef, Portier".
No misspelling variants are generated for recepční 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 recepční, spelled R-E-C-E-P-Č-N-Í, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Beschäftigter, der Gäste oder Besucher empfängt: Rezeptionist, Empfangschef, Portier
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Using “recepční”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-E-C-E-P-Č-N-Í - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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