štyri

/[ˈʃtiri]/ num

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

štyri is aGermannum. It means: Kardinalzahl, welche mit dem Zahlzeichen 4 dargestellt wird; vier Pronounced [ˈʃtiri].

Key facts for štyri
PropertyValue
Headwordštyri
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNum
IPA[ˈʃtiri]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

štyri 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 štyri is 5 letters long, classified as anum, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtiri]. 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: "Kardinalzahl, welche mit dem Zahlzeichen 4 dargestellt wird; vier".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Kardinalzahl, welche mit dem Zahlzeichen 4 dargestellt wird; vier

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "štyri"?
"štyri" is spelled Š-T-Y-R-I. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃtiri].
What does "štyri" mean?
As a num, "štyri" means: Kardinalzahl, welche mit dem Zahlzeichen 4 dargestellt wird; vier
How do you pronounce "štyri"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "štyri" is [ˈʃtiri]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "štyri" come from?
"štyri" 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.