Taxon
Letters
5 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Taxon is aGermannoun. It means: eine in der Biologie als systematische Einheit erkannte und entsprechend benannte Gruppe von Lebewesen Pronounced [ˈtaksɔn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taxon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtaksɔn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Taxon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtaksɔn]. 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: "eine in der Biologie als systematische Einheit erkannte und entsprechend benannte Gruppe von Lebewesen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Taxon 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 Taxon, spelled T-A-X-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine in der Biologie als systematische Einheit erkannte und entsprechend benannte Gruppe von Lebewesen
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