święty
Letters
6 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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święty is anGermanadj. It means: nach dem Tod offiziell durch die Kirche kanonisiert; heilig Pronounced [ˈɕfʲɛntɨ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | święty |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈɕfʲɛntɨ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for święty is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɕfʲɛntɨ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for święty in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 święty, spelled Ś-W-I-Ę-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nach dem Tod offiziell durch die Kirche kanonisiert; heilig
- 2Gott oder einer Gottheit geheiligt, ein Kultobjekt darstellend; heilig
- 3Gott seine Allmacht, Unendlichkeit und Unsterblichkeit zusprechend; heilig
- 4mit einem Kult verbunden; heilig
- 5tugendhaft, gerecht, edel
- 6ehrenwert, edel, erhaben
- 7heilig, unantastbar
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