šířka

/[ˈʃiːr̝ka]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

šířka is aGermannoun. It means: horizontale Ausdehnung zwischen zwei Rändern, Enden; Breite Pronounced [ˈʃiːr̝ka].

Key facts for šířka
PropertyValue
Headwordšířka
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʃiːr̝ka]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

šířka 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 šířka is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃiːr̝ka]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for šířka 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 šířka, spelled Š-Í-Ř-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    horizontale Ausdehnung zwischen zwei Rändern, Enden; Breite
  2. 2
    im Winkelmaß angegebene nördliche oder südliche Entfernung eines Ortes auf der Erdoberfläche vom Äquator; Breite
  3. 3
    Weitschweifigkeit, Vielseitigkeit; Breite

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "šířka"?
"šířka" is spelled Š-Í-Ř-K-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃiːr̝ka].
What does "šířka" mean?
As a noun, "šířka" means: horizontale Ausdehnung zwischen zwei Rändern, Enden; Breite
How do you pronounce "šířka"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "šířka" is [ˈʃiːr̝ka]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "šířka" come from?
"šířka" 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.