Wasserkopf
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
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0
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Wasserkopf is aGermannoun. It means: eine krankhafte Ansammlung von Wasser im Gehirn, die zu einer Vergrößerung des Kopfes führt Pronounced [ˈvasɐˌkɔp͡f].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wasserkopf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvasɐˌkɔp͡f] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Wasserkopf is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvasɐˌkɔp͡f]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Wasserkopf 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 Wasserkopf, spelled W-A-S-S-E-R-K-O-P-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine krankhafte Ansammlung von Wasser im Gehirn, die zu einer Vergrößerung des Kopfes führt
- 2eine Verwaltung, von der man annimmt, dass sie für die Erfüllung ihrer Aufgaben mit zu viel Personal arbeitet oder überflüssige Aufgaben verrichtet; eine aufgeblähte Verwaltung
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