Scylla
Letters
6 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Scylla is aGermannoun. It means: hoher Felsen auf der italienischen Seite der sizilianischen Meerenge, der Straße von Messina, dem Strudel Charybdis gegenüber Pronounced […].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Scylla |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Scylla is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Scylla 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 Scylla, spelled S-C-Y-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1hoher Felsen auf der italienischen Seite der sizilianischen Meerenge, der Straße von Messina, dem Strudel Charybdis gegenüber
- 2eine Nymphe, die Tochter des Phorkus, die von Kirke aus Eifersucht in ein Ungeheuer mit Hunden um den Unterleib und mit sechs Köpfen und zwölf Füßen verwandelte
- 3die Tochter des Nisus, des Königs von Megara, die aus Liebe zu Minos ihrem Vater das Purpurhaar, worauf sein gesamtes Wohl beruhte, raubte. Daraufhin wurde sie von Minos verschmäht. Sie stürzte sich ins Meer und wurde in den Vogel Ciris verwandelt.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "Scylla"?
What does "Scylla" mean?
How do you pronounce "Scylla"?
What language does "Scylla" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our German index: