Samichlaus
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
Samichlaus is aGermannoun. It means: Figur des Weihnachtsbrauchtums nach dem Vorbild des heiligen Nikolaus, die in der Nacht zum 6. Dezember die Familien besucht, das Verhalten der Kinder im vergangenen Jahr kommentiert und ihnen als ... Pronounced [ˈsamiˌxlaʊ̯s].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Samichlaus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsamiˌxlaʊ̯s] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Samichlaus is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsamiˌxlaʊ̯s]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Samichlaus 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 Samichlaus, spelled S-A-M-I-C-H-L-A-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figur des Weihnachtsbrauchtums nach dem Vorbild des heiligen Nikolaus, die in der Nacht zum 6. Dezember die Familien besucht, das Verhalten der Kinder im vergangenen Jahr kommentiert und ihnen als Anerkennung für ihr Wohlverhalten Nüsse, Mandarinen, Tirggel, Lebkuchen, Schokolade usw. schenkt
- 2Person, die sich als Samichlaus^([1]) verkleidet hat und am 6. Dezember die Kinder beschenkt
- 3aus Schokolade, Marzipan oder Ähnlichem bestehende Figur, die den Samichlaus^([1]) darstellt
- 4Samichlaustag, der 6. Dezember
- 5der Gabenbringer der Weihnachtszeit überhaupt, anstelle des Christkinds oder Weihnachtskinds
- 6das vom Gabenbringer (Samichlaus^([5])) gebrachte Geschenk
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