začat

/[ˈzat͡ʃat]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

začat is aGermanverb. It means: Partizip Passiv Maskulinum Singular des Verbs začít Pronounced [ˈzat͡ʃat].

Key facts for začat
PropertyValue
Headwordzačat
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈzat͡ʃat]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

začat 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 začat is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzat͡ʃat]. 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: "Partizip Passiv Maskulinum Singular des Verbs začít".

No misspelling variants are generated for začat 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 začat, spelled Z-A-Č-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Partizip Passiv Maskulinum Singular des Verbs začít

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "začat"?
"začat" is spelled Z-A-Č-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈzat͡ʃat].
What does "začat" mean?
As a verb, "začat" means: Partizip Passiv Maskulinum Singular des Verbs začít
How do you pronounce "začat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "začat" is [ˈzat͡ʃat]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "začat" come from?
"začat" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.