Zebrastreifen

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Zebrastreifen is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡seːbʁaˌʃtʁaɪ̯fn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,879 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "durch weiße (und rote) oder gelbe, quer über eine Straße verlaufende Streifen gekennzeichnete Stelle, die anzeigt, dass Fußgängern beim Queren der Straße ein Vorrang gegenüber Kraftfahrern und Fahr...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for Zebrastreifen, with forms such as "ezbrastreifen", "zberastreifen", and "zebarstreifen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 Zebrastreifen, spelled Z-E-B-R-A-S-T-R-E-I-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.