worfeln
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7 characters
Language
German
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worfeln is aGermanverb. It means: gedroschene Ähren mit einer flachen Korbschale (Worfel, Worfschaufel) in die Luft werfen, damit seitlicher Wind Spreu und Spelzen davonträgt und nur die Körner in den Korb zurückfallen Pronounced [ˈvɔʁfl̩n].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worfeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvɔʁfl̩n] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for worfeln is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɔʁfl̩n]. 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: "gedroschene Ähren mit einer flachen Korbschale (Worfel, Worfschaufel) in die Luft werfen, damit seitlicher Wind Spreu und Spelzen davonträgt und nur die Körner in den Korb zurückfallen".
No misspelling variants are generated for worfeln 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 worfeln, spelled W-O-R-F-E-L-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1gedroschene Ähren mit einer flachen Korbschale (Worfel, Worfschaufel) in die Luft werfen, damit seitlicher Wind Spreu und Spelzen davonträgt und nur die Körner in den Korb zurückfallen
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