zephyr
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#83,553
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
zephyr is aGermannoun. It means: ein feuchtwarmer Westwind im Mittelmeerraum Pronounced [ˈzefəʳ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zephyr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzefəʳ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for zephyr is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzefəʳ]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,553 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zephyr 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 zephyr, spelled Z-E-P-H-Y-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein feuchtwarmer Westwind im Mittelmeerraum
- 2Westwind, warmer milder Westwind
- 3eine leichte Brise, ein laues Lüftchen
- 4leichtes Gewebe, leichter Baumwollstoff, leichtes Garn (Zephyrgarn), leichte Kleidungsstücke
- 5etwas, das luftig, unwirklich, vergehend ist
- 6Der "Chinook" (West-Föhn der Rocky Mountains) wird im US-Bundesstaat Colorado gelegentlich auch als "zephyr" bezeichnet. Neben "zephyr" ist in Colorado für den Westföhn jedoch auch die Bezeichnung "Pacific wind" gebräuchlich.
Frequency rank: #83,553 in German
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