štít

/[ʃciːt]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

štít is aGermannoun. It means: in der Hand getragene Schutzausrüstung, die als Schutz des eigenen Körpers vor feindlichen Hieben dient; Schild, Schutzschild Pronounced [ʃciːt].

Key facts for štít
PropertyValue
Headwordštít
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʃciːt]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

štít 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 štít is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃciːt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    in der Hand getragene Schutzausrüstung, die als Schutz des eigenen Körpers vor feindlichen Hieben dient; Schild, Schutzschild
  2. 2
    Tafel oder Platte mit einer Aufschrift oder einem Bild, die zu Informationszwecken dient; Schild
  3. 3
    höchster Punkt eines Berges; Bergspitze, Berggipfel
  4. 4
    dreieckiger Wandteil zwischen den Schrägen eines Satteldaches; Giebel

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "štít"?
"štít" is spelled Š-T-Í-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃciːt].
What does "štít" mean?
As a noun, "štít" means: in der Hand getragene Schutzausrüstung, die als Schutz des eigenen Körpers vor feindlichen Hieben dient; Schild, Schutzschild
How do you pronounce "štít"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "štít" is [ʃciːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "štít" come from?
"štít" 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.