saurer Regen
The verdict
“saurer Regen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Niederschlag, dessen pH-Wert niedriger ist, als der pH-Wert, der sich in reinem Wasser durch den Kohlendioxid-Gehalt der Atmosphäre einstellt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saurer Regen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌzaʊ̯ʁɐ ˈʁeːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saurer Regen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for saurer Regen is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌzaʊ̯ʁɐ ˈʁeːɡn̩]. 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: "Niederschlag, dessen pH-Wert niedriger ist, als der pH-Wert, der sich in reinem Wasser durch den Kohlendioxid-Gehalt der Atmosphäre einstellt".
No misspelling variants are generated for saurer Regen 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 saurer Regen, spelled S-A-U-R-E-R- -R-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Niederschlag, dessen pH-Wert niedriger ist, als der pH-Wert, der sich in reinem Wasser durch den Kohlendioxid-Gehalt der Atmosphäre einstellt
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- The one correct German spelling is S-A-U-R-E-R- -R-E-G-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌzaʊ̯ʁɐ ˈʁeːɡn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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