Teenager

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The German entry for Teenager is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtiːnʔɛɪ̯d͡ʒɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,887 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Junge oder Mädchen etwa im Alter zwischen 13 und 19 Jahren".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Teenager, with forms such as "etenager", "teeanger", and "teenaegr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Teenagern", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Teenager, spelled T-E-E-N-A-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.