weissagen

/[ˈvaɪ̯sˌzaːɡn̩]/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

weissagen is aGermanverb. It means: (aufgrund einer Erleuchtung, Eingebung, gesehener Zeichen) eine Aussage über die Zukunft treffen, oftmals eine Behauptung aufstellen, dass ein bestimmtes Ereignis eintreffen wird Pronounced [ˈvaɪ̯sˌzaːɡn̩].

Key facts for weissagen
PropertyValue
Headwordweissagen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈvaɪ̯sˌzaːɡn̩]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

weissagen 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 weissagen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvaɪ̯sˌzaːɡn̩]. 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: "(aufgrund einer Erleuchtung, Eingebung, gesehener Zeichen) eine Aussage über die Zukunft treffen, oftmals eine Behauptung aufstellen, dass ein bestimmtes Ereignis eintreffen wird".

No misspelling variants are generated for weissagen 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 weissagen, spelled W-E-I-S-S-A-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (aufgrund einer Erleuchtung, Eingebung, gesehener Zeichen) eine Aussage über die Zukunft treffen, oftmals eine Behauptung aufstellen, dass ein bestimmtes Ereignis eintreffen wird

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "weissagen"?
"weissagen" is spelled W-E-I-S-S-A-G-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈvaɪ̯sˌzaːɡn̩].
What does "weissagen" mean?
As a verb, "weissagen" means: (aufgrund einer Erleuchtung, Eingebung, gesehener Zeichen) eine Aussage über die Zukunft treffen, oftmals eine Behauptung aufstellen, dass ein bestimmtes Ereignis eintreffen wird
How do you pronounce "weissagen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "weissagen" is [ˈvaɪ̯sˌzaːɡn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "weissagen" come from?
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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.