šňůra

/[ˈʃɲuːra]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

šňůra is aGermannoun. It means: aus mehreren Strähnen gewobenes, langes, dünnes Gebilde, mit dem man etwas zubinden kann; Schnur, Leine Pronounced [ˈʃɲuːra].

Key facts for šňůra
PropertyValue
Headwordšňůra
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʃɲuːra]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

šňůra 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 šňůra is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃɲuːra]. 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 šňůra 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 šňůra, spelled Š-Ň-Ů-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    aus mehreren Strähnen gewobenes, langes, dünnes Gebilde, mit dem man etwas zubinden kann; Schnur, Leine
  2. 2
    länglicher, beweglicher, isolierter Leiter; Schnur, Kabel
  3. 3
    mehrere Objekte, Geschehnisse aufeinanderfolgend in einer Reihe; Serie, Fahrzeuge: Kolonne, Konzerte: Tournee

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "šňůra"?
"šňůra" is spelled Š-Ň-Ů-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃɲuːra].
What does "šňůra" mean?
As a noun, "šňůra" means: aus mehreren Strähnen gewobenes, langes, dünnes Gebilde, mit dem man etwas zubinden kann; Schnur, Leine
How do you pronounce "šňůra"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "šňůra" is [ˈʃɲuːra]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "šňůra" come from?
"šňůra" 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.