Wacke
Letters
5 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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Wacke is aGermannoun. It means: runder, glatter, harter Stein in fließendem Wasser, Kiesel Pronounced [ˈvakə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wacke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvakə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wacke is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvakə]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Wacke 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 Wacke, spelled W-A-C-K-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1runder, glatter, harter Stein in fließendem Wasser, Kiesel
- 2zerstreut auf dem Feld liegender, nackt aus dem Boden hervorragender Stein
- 3ein harter Stein, Gesteinsbrocken
- 4aus gebranntem Ton oder Marmor verfertigte Spielkugel als Kinderspielzeug, an deren Stelle ursprünglich Kieselsteine verwendet wurden
- 5Stein, der zwischen dem Rasen und den mineralhaltigen Gängen liegt und weggeschafft werden muss, um zu diesen zu gelangen
- 6Gestein, auch bestimmte Gesteinsarten
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