zanzibar

/[zɑ̃zibaʁ]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

zanzibar is aGermannoun. It means: Glücksspiel für zwei oder mehr Personen, das mit drei Würfeln gespielt wird Pronounced [zɑ̃zibaʁ].

Key facts for zanzibar
PropertyValue
Headwordzanzibar
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[zɑ̃zibaʁ]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

zanzibar 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 zanzibar is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zɑ̃zibaʁ]. 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: "Glücksspiel für zwei oder mehr Personen, das mit drei Würfeln gespielt wird".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zanzibar 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 zanzibar, spelled Z-A-N-Z-I-B-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Glücksspiel für zwei oder mehr Personen, das mit drei Würfeln gespielt wird

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zanzibar"?
"zanzibar" is spelled Z-A-N-Z-I-B-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [zɑ̃zibaʁ].
What does "zanzibar" mean?
As a noun, "zanzibar" means: Glücksspiel für zwei oder mehr Personen, das mit drei Würfeln gespielt wird
How do you pronounce "zanzibar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zanzibar" is [zɑ̃zibaʁ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "zanzibar" come from?
"zanzibar" 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.