Spitzkehre
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Spitzkehre is aGermannoun. It means: Kurve einer Strecke, die fast in die entgegengesetzte Richtung führt Pronounced [ˈʃpɪt͡sˌkeːʁə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spitzkehre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɪt͡sˌkeːʁə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Spitzkehre is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃpɪt͡sˌkeːʁə]. 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: "Kurve einer Strecke, die fast in die entgegengesetzte Richtung führt".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Spitzkehre 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 Spitzkehre, spelled S-P-I-T-Z-K-E-H-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Kurve einer Strecke, die fast in die entgegengesetzte Richtung führt
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