šeima

/[…]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

šeima is aGermannoun. It means: Gruppe von Menschen, mit denen man verwandt ist; Familie Pronounced […].

Key facts for šeima
PropertyValue
Headwordšeima
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

šeima 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 šeima is 5 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 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for šeima 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 šeima, spelled Š-E-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gruppe von Menschen, mit denen man verwandt ist; Familie
  2. 2
    Familie

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "šeima"?
"šeima" is spelled Š-E-I-M-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "šeima" mean?
As a noun, "šeima" means: Gruppe von Menschen, mit denen man verwandt ist; Familie
How do you pronounce "šeima"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "šeima" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "šeima" come from?
"šeima" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter Š in our German index:

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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.