Shakespeare

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The German entry for Shakespeare is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃɛi̯kspiːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,095 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "englischer Dichter, Theaterunternehmer und Schauspieler, dessen Dramen zu den bedeutendsten Werken der Weltliteratur gehören".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Shakespeare, with forms such as "hsakespeare", "sahkespeare", and "shaekspeare". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Shakespeares", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Shakespeare, spelled S-H-A-K-E-S-P-E-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.