zavrtět
Letters
7 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
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zavrtět is aGermanverb. It means: etwas schnell hin- und herbewegen; schütteln, wedeln Pronounced [ˈzavr̩cɛt].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zavrtět |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈzavr̩cɛt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for zavrtět is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzavr̩cɛt]. 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: "etwas schnell hin- und herbewegen; schütteln, wedeln".
No misspelling variants are generated for zavrtět 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 zavrtět, spelled Z-A-V-R-T-Ě-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas schnell hin- und herbewegen; schütteln, wedeln
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