Vitamin B

/[vitaˌmiːn ˈbeː]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Vitamin B is aGermannoun. It means: Sammelbegriff für eine Gruppe von wasserlöslichen, chemisch und pharmakologisch völlig verschiedenen Vitaminen Pronounced [vitaˌmiːn ˈbeː].

Key facts for Vitamin B
PropertyValue
HeadwordVitamin B
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[vitaˌmiːn ˈbeː]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Vitamin B is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vitaˌmiːn ˈbeː]. 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: "Sammelbegriff für eine Gruppe von wasserlöslichen, chemisch und pharmakologisch völlig verschiedenen Vitaminen".

No misspelling variants are generated for Vitamin B 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 Vitamin B, spelled V-I-T-A-M-I-N- -B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sammelbegriff für eine Gruppe von wasserlöslichen, chemisch und pharmakologisch völlig verschiedenen Vitaminen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Vitamin B"?
"Vitamin B" is spelled V-I-T-A-M-I-N- -B. The IPA pronunciation is [vitaˌmiːn ˈbeː].
What does "Vitamin B" mean?
As a noun, "Vitamin B" means: Sammelbegriff für eine Gruppe von wasserlöslichen, chemisch und pharmakologisch völlig verschiedenen Vitaminen
How do you pronounce "Vitamin B"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Vitamin B" is [vitaˌmiːn ˈbeː]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Vitamin B" come from?
"Vitamin B" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.