špička
Letters
6 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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špička is aGermannoun. It means: oberster, schmal zulaufender Teil eines Gegenstandes oder einer Formation; Spitze Pronounced [ˈʃpɪt͡ʃka].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | špička |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɪt͡ʃka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for špička is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃpɪt͡ʃka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for špička 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 špička, spelled Š-P-I-Č-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1oberster, schmal zulaufender Teil eines Gegenstandes oder einer Formation; Spitze
- 2der vordere Teil eines Fußes
- 3Zeitperiode der größten Last; Spitze, Spitzenzeit
- 4kleinere Gruppe von Personen mit der höchsten Stellung, der meisten Erfahrung, den besten Leistungen u. Ä. Spitze, Spitzengruppe
- 5leichte Alkoholisierung beim Menschen; Schwips
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