schließen
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
schließen is aGermanverb. It means: eine Öffnung oder den Verschluss einer solchen zumachen Pronounced [ˈʃliːsn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schließen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃliːsn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schließen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃliːsn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for schließen 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 schließen, spelled S-C-H-L-I-E-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Öffnung oder den Verschluss einer solchen zumachen
- 2zugehen, zumachbar sein, geschlossen werden
- 3eine Schlussfolgerung machen
- 4einen Vorgang beenden
- 5den Verkauf in einem Geschäft temporär einstellen (indem man das Geschäft zumacht)
- 6ein Geschäft aufgeben; für immer zumachen
- 7einen Stromkreis komplettieren
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