telefonní číslo
[ˈtɛlɛfɔɲiː ˈt͡ʃiːslɔ]
The verdict
“telefonní číslo” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ziffernfolge, mit der man einen Gesprächspartner anwählen kann
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | telefonní číslo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈtɛlɛfɔɲiː ˈt͡ʃiːslɔ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “telefonní číslo” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for telefonní číslo is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtɛlɛfɔɲiː ˈt͡ʃiːslɔ]. 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: "Ziffernfolge, mit der man einen Gesprächspartner anwählen kann".
No misspelling variants are generated for telefonní číslo 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 telefonní číslo, spelled T-E-L-E-F-O-N-N-Í- -Č-Í-S-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ziffernfolge, mit der man einen Gesprächspartner anwählen kann
This word in other languages
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Using “telefonní číslo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-E-L-E-F-O-N-N-Í- -Č-Í-S-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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