Xanthippe
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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Xanthippe is aGermannoun. It means: Bezeichnung für eine zänkische Frau oder Ehefrau nach der Ehefrau von Sokrates Pronounced [ksanˈtɪpə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Xanthippe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ksanˈtɪpə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Xanthippe is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ksanˈtɪpə]. 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: "Bezeichnung für eine zänkische Frau oder Ehefrau nach der Ehefrau von Sokrates".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Xanthippe 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 Xanthippe, spelled X-A-N-T-H-I-P-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bezeichnung für eine zänkische Frau oder Ehefrau nach der Ehefrau von Sokrates
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