Tamagotchi
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Tamagotchi is aGermannoun. It means: Marke der Firma Bandai für ein eiförmiges, elektronisches Spielgerät, das ein virtuelles Haustier abbildet, welches per Knopfdruck gepflegt werden muss Pronounced [tamaˈɡɔt͡ʃi].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tamagotchi |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tamaˈɡɔt͡ʃi] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Tamagotchi is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tamaˈɡɔt͡ʃi]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Tamagotchi 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 Tamagotchi, spelled T-A-M-A-G-O-T-C-H-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marke der Firma Bandai für ein eiförmiges, elektronisches Spielgerät, das ein virtuelles Haustier abbildet, welches per Knopfdruck gepflegt werden muss
- 2eiförmiges, elektronisches Spielgerät, das ein virtuelles Haustier abbildet, welches per Knopfdruck gepflegt werden muss
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