žiarovka

/[ˈʒi̯arɔu̯ka]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

žiarovka is aGermannoun. It means: eine Glühwendel enthaltender luftleerer Glaskörper; Glühbirne Pronounced [ˈʒi̯arɔu̯ka].

Key facts for žiarovka
PropertyValue
Headwordžiarovka
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʒi̯arɔu̯ka]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

žiarovka 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 žiarovka is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʒi̯arɔu̯ka]. 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: "eine Glühwendel enthaltender luftleerer Glaskörper; Glühbirne".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for žiarovka 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 žiarovka, spelled Ž-I-A-R-O-V-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine Glühwendel enthaltender luftleerer Glaskörper; Glühbirne

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "žiarovka"?
"žiarovka" is spelled Ž-I-A-R-O-V-K-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʒi̯arɔu̯ka].
What does "žiarovka" mean?
As a noun, "žiarovka" means: eine Glühwendel enthaltender luftleerer Glaskörper; Glühbirne
How do you pronounce "žiarovka"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "žiarovka" is [ˈʒi̯arɔu̯ka]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "žiarovka" come from?
"žiarovka" 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.