łuska
The verdict
“łuska” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Zoologie: Horn- oder Knochenplättchen, das bei Fischen, Reptilien und Insekten als Körperbedeckung dient: Schuppe
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | łuska |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwuska] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “łuska” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for łuska is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈwuska]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for łuska 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 łuska, spelled Ł-U-S-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zoologie: Horn- oder Knochenplättchen, das bei Fischen, Reptilien und Insekten als Körperbedeckung dient: Schuppe
- 2Botanik: Hülle von manchen Früchten, Samen, Knospen und Trieben: Hülse, Schale
- 3Anatomie, Medizin: abblätterndes und/oder verhorntes Hautplättchen: Hautschuppe, Schuppe
- 4Militär: Hülle von Patronen: Patronenhülse, Hülse
- 5Geologie, genauer Tektonik: Teil einer tektonischen Struktur: Tektonische Schuppe, Schuppe
- 6Rüstung: Element eines Schuppenpanzers, Schuppenhemdes: Schuppe
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Using “łuska”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Ł-U-S-K-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈwuska] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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