sank zurück

/[ˌzaŋk t͡suˈʁʏk]/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

sank zurück is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zurücksinken Pronounced [ˌzaŋk t͡suˈʁʏk].

Key facts for sank zurück
PropertyValue
Headwordsank zurück
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˌzaŋk t͡suˈʁʏk]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sank zurück 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 sank zurück is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌzaŋk t͡suˈʁʏk]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for sank zurück 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 sank zurück, spelled S-A-N-K- -Z-U-R-Ü-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zurücksinken
  2. 2
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zurücksinken

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sank zurück"?
"sank zurück" is spelled S-A-N-K- -Z-U-R-Ü-C-K. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌzaŋk t͡suˈʁʏk].
What does "sank zurück" mean?
As a verb, "sank zurück" means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zurücksinken
How do you pronounce "sank zurück"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sank zurück" is [ˌzaŋk t͡suˈʁʏk]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sank zurück" come from?
"sank zurück" 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.