žánr

/[ˈʒaːnr̩]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

žánr is aGermannoun. It means: Art künstlerischer Werke mit bestimmten gemeinsamen Merkmalen; Genre, Gattung Pronounced [ˈʒaːnr̩].

Key facts for žánr
PropertyValue
Headwordžánr
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʒaːnr̩]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

žánr is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for žánr is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʒaːnr̩]. 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: "Art künstlerischer Werke mit bestimmten gemeinsamen Merkmalen; Genre, Gattung".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for žánr 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 žánr, spelled Ž-Á-N-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Art künstlerischer Werke mit bestimmten gemeinsamen Merkmalen; Genre, Gattung

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "žánr"?
"žánr" is spelled Ž-Á-N-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʒaːnr̩].
What does "žánr" mean?
As a noun, "žánr" means: Art künstlerischer Werke mit bestimmten gemeinsamen Merkmalen; Genre, Gattung
How do you pronounce "žánr"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "žánr" is [ˈʒaːnr̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "žánr" come from?
"žánr" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.