Schwarzes Loch

/[ˌʃvaʁt͡səs ˈlɔx]/ phrase

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14 characters

Language

German

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Schwarzes Loch is aGermanphrase. It means: Bereich der Raumzeit, der auf Grund des starken Gravitationsfelds so stark gekrümmt ist, dass weder Materie noch Licht oder Information aus dieser Region nach außen gelangen können Pronounced [ˌʃvaʁt͡səs ˈlɔx].

Key facts for Schwarzes Loch
PropertyValue
HeadwordSchwarzes Loch
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌʃvaʁt͡səs ˈlɔx]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Schwarzes Loch is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʃvaʁt͡səs ˈlɔx]. 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: "Bereich der Raumzeit, der auf Grund des starken Gravitationsfelds so stark gekrümmt ist, dass weder Materie noch Licht oder Information aus dieser Region nach außen gelangen können".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Schwarzes Loch in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Schwarzes Loch, spelled S-C-H-W-A-R-Z-E-S- -L-O-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bereich der Raumzeit, der auf Grund des starken Gravitationsfelds so stark gekrümmt ist, dass weder Materie noch Licht oder Information aus dieser Region nach außen gelangen können

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Schwarzes Loch"?
"Schwarzes Loch" is spelled S-C-H-W-A-R-Z-E-S- -L-O-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌʃvaʁt͡səs ˈlɔx].
What does "Schwarzes Loch" mean?
As a phrase, "Schwarzes Loch" means: Bereich der Raumzeit, der auf Grund des starken Gravitationsfelds so stark gekrümmt ist, dass weder Materie noch Licht oder Information aus dieser Region nach außen gelangen können
How do you pronounce "Schwarzes Loch"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Schwarzes Loch" is [ˌʃvaʁt͡səs ˈlɔx]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Schwarzes Loch" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.