Traufel

/[ˈtʁaʊ̯fl̩]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

Traufel is aGermannoun. It means: Handwerksgerät für Maurer (regional z.B. im Rheinland): die Kelle, die Maurerkelle Pronounced [ˈtʁaʊ̯fl̩].

Key facts for Traufel
PropertyValue
HeadwordTraufel
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈtʁaʊ̯fl̩]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Traufel is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Traufel is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtʁaʊ̯fl̩]. 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: "Handwerksgerät für Maurer (regional z.B. im Rheinland): die Kelle, die Maurerkelle".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Traufel in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Traufel, spelled T-R-A-U-F-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Handwerksgerät für Maurer (regional z.B. im Rheinland): die Kelle, die Maurerkelle

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Traufel"?
"Traufel" is spelled T-R-A-U-F-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈtʁaʊ̯fl̩].
What does "Traufel" mean?
As a noun, "Traufel" means: Handwerksgerät für Maurer (regional z.B. im Rheinland): die Kelle, die Maurerkelle
How do you pronounce "Traufel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Traufel" is [ˈtʁaʊ̯fl̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Traufel" come from?
"Traufel" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.