San José

/[…]/ name

Letters

8 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

San José is aGermanname. It means: Hauptstadt von Costa Rica Pronounced […].

Key facts for San José
PropertyValue
HeadwordSan José
LanguageGerman
Part of speechName
IPA[…]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for San José is 8 letters long, classified as aname, 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.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for San José 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 San José, spelled S-A-N- -J-O-S-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hauptstadt von Costa Rica
  2. 2
    Großstadt in Kalifornien, USA
  3. 3
    Name verschiedener Orte (vor allem in Lateinamerika)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "San José"?
"San José" is spelled S-A-N- -J-O-S-É. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "San José" mean?
As a name, "San José" means: Hauptstadt von Costa Rica
How do you pronounce "San José"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "San José" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "San José" come from?
"San José" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.