Zinke
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#91,187
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Zinke is aGermannoun. It means: lange und spitze Fortsätze an der Spitze mancher Werkzeuge Pronounced [ˈt͡sɪŋkə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zinke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡sɪŋkə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Zinke is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡sɪŋkə]. Corpus data places it at rank #91,187 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Zinke 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 Zinke, spelled Z-I-N-K-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1lange und spitze Fortsätze an der Spitze mancher Werkzeuge
- 2Geheimzeichen des fahrenden Volkes zur unauffälligen Verständigung untereinander
- 3unauffällige Markierung an einer Spielkarte, welche einem Kartenbetrüger den Wert einer Karte offenbart
- 4Bestandteil der Zinkung, einer Methode der Holzverbindung
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Frequency rank: #91,187 in German
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