Weißes Meer
The verdict
“Weißes Meer” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nebenmeer des Arktischen Ozeans, buchtähnlich von der Halbinsel Kola, Karelien und dem Nordrussischen Tiefland eingefasst; im Nordwesten der Russischen Föderation gelegen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Weißes Meer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˌvaɪ̯səs ˈmeːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Weißes Meer” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Weißes Meer is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌvaɪ̯səs ˈmeːɐ̯]. 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: "Nebenmeer des Arktischen Ozeans, buchtähnlich von der Halbinsel Kola, Karelien und dem Nordrussischen Tiefland eingefasst; im Nordwesten der Russischen Föderation gelegen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Weißes Meer 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 Weißes Meer, spelled W-E-I-S-S-E-S- -M-E-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nebenmeer des Arktischen Ozeans, buchtähnlich von der Halbinsel Kola, Karelien und dem Nordrussischen Tiefland eingefasst; im Nordwesten der Russischen Föderation gelegen
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Using “Weißes Meer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-E-I-S-S-E-S- -M-E-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌvaɪ̯səs ˈmeːɐ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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