-ština

/[ʃcɪna]/ suffix

Letters

6 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

-ština is aGermansuffix. It means: Suffix zur Bildung für eine Bezeichnung einer Landessprache, die auf ein gebildetes, Land bezogenes Adjektiv mit dem Suffix -ský zurückzuführen ist; selten im Plural Pronounced [ʃcɪna].

Key facts for -ština
PropertyValue
Headword-ština
LanguageGerman
Part of speechSuffix
IPA[ʃcɪna]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

-ština 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 -ština is 6 letters long, classified as asuffix, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃcɪna]. 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: "Suffix zur Bildung für eine Bezeichnung einer Landessprache, die auf ein gebildetes, Land bezogenes Adjektiv mit dem Suffix -ský zurückzuführen ist; selten im Plural".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for -ština 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 -ština, spelled --Š-T-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Suffix zur Bildung für eine Bezeichnung einer Landessprache, die auf ein gebildetes, Land bezogenes Adjektiv mit dem Suffix -ský zurückzuführen ist; selten im Plural

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "-ština"?
"-ština" is spelled --Š-T-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃcɪna].
What does "-ština" mean?
As a suffix, "-ština" means: Suffix zur Bildung für eine Bezeichnung einer Landessprache, die auf ein gebildetes, Land bezogenes Adjektiv mit dem Suffix -ský zurückzuführen ist; selten im Plural
How do you pronounce "-ština"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "-ština" is [ʃcɪna]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "-ština" come from?
"-ština" 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.