Wasserbüffel

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Wasserbüffel is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvasɐˌbʏfəl]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,112 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine wasserliebende Art der Rinder und bekanntester Vertreter unter den asiatischen Büffeln".

No misspelling variants are generated for Wasserbüffel 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 Wasserbüffel, spelled W-A-S-S-E-R-B-Ü-F-F-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.