Schlaginstrument

/[ˈʃlaːkʔɪnstʁuˌmɛnt]/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

German

word origin

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0

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Schlaginstrument is aGermannoun. It means: ein durch Anschlagen zum Klingen gebrachtes Instrument, das hauptsächlich der Rhythmusgestaltung dient Pronounced [ˈʃlaːkʔɪnstʁuˌmɛnt].

Key facts for Schlaginstrument
PropertyValue
HeadwordSchlaginstrument
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʃlaːkʔɪnstʁuˌmɛnt]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Schlaginstrument 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 Schlaginstrument is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃlaːkʔɪnstʁuˌmɛnt]. 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: "ein durch Anschlagen zum Klingen gebrachtes Instrument, das hauptsächlich der Rhythmusgestaltung dient".

No misspelling variants are generated for Schlaginstrument 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 Schlaginstrument, spelled S-C-H-L-A-G-I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ein durch Anschlagen zum Klingen gebrachtes Instrument, das hauptsächlich der Rhythmusgestaltung dient

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Schlaginstrument"?
"Schlaginstrument" is spelled S-C-H-L-A-G-I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃlaːkʔɪnstʁuˌmɛnt].
What does "Schlaginstrument" mean?
As a noun, "Schlaginstrument" means: ein durch Anschlagen zum Klingen gebrachtes Instrument, das hauptsächlich der Rhythmusgestaltung dient
How do you pronounce "Schlaginstrument"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Schlaginstrument" is [ˈʃlaːkʔɪnstʁuˌmɛnt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.