sexuelle Orientierung

/[sɛksuˈɛlə oʁiɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ]/ phrase

Letters

21 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sexuelle Orientierung is aGermanphrase. It means: Ausrichtung des Geschlechtstriebs (und meist auch des romantischen Interesses) im Hinblick auf das Geschlecht potenzieller Partner Pronounced [sɛksuˈɛlə oʁiɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ].

Key facts for sexuelle Orientierung
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Headwordsexuelle Orientierung
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[sɛksuˈɛlə oʁiɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ]
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sexuelle Orientierung 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 sexuelle Orientierung is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sɛksuˈɛlə oʁiɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ]. 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: "Ausrichtung des Geschlechtstriebs (und meist auch des romantischen Interesses) im Hinblick auf das Geschlecht potenzieller Partner".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sexuelle Orientierung 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 sexuelle Orientierung, spelled S-E-X-U-E-L-L-E- -O-R-I-E-N-T-I-E-R-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Ausrichtung des Geschlechtstriebs (und meist auch des romantischen Interesses) im Hinblick auf das Geschlecht potenzieller Partner

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sexuelle Orientierung"?
"sexuelle Orientierung" is spelled S-E-X-U-E-L-L-E- -O-R-I-E-N-T-I-E-R-U-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is [sɛksuˈɛlə oʁiɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ].
What does "sexuelle Orientierung" mean?
As a phrase, "sexuelle Orientierung" means: Ausrichtung des Geschlechtstriebs (und meist auch des romantischen Interesses) im Hinblick auf das Geschlecht potenzieller Partner
How do you pronounce "sexuelle Orientierung"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sexuelle Orientierung" is [sɛksuˈɛlə oʁiɛnˈtiːʁʊŋ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sexuelle Orientierung" come from?
"sexuelle Orientierung" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.