Windrose
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8 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Windrose is aGermannoun. It means: die Einteilung des Horizontkreises in Himmelsrichtungen, nach denen die Winde bezeichnet werden. Meistens unterteilt man die Zwischenräume zwischen den vier Hauptrichtungen Nord, Ost, Süd und West ... Pronounced [ˈvɪntʁoːzə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Windrose |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɪntʁoːzə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Windrose is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɪntʁoːzə]. 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 Windrose 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 Windrose, spelled W-I-N-D-R-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Einteilung des Horizontkreises in Himmelsrichtungen, nach denen die Winde bezeichnet werden. Meistens unterteilt man die Zwischenräume zwischen den vier Hauptrichtungen Nord, Ost, Süd und West noch dreimal in jeweils gleichgroße Teile, so dass man 32 Windrichtungen unterscheiden kann.
- 2Ein Rosetten-Diagramm, das die Häufigkeit und die Stärke des Windes an einem Ort zu einer bestimmten Zeit im Jahr angibt.
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