žízeň

/[ˈʒiːzɛɲ]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

žízeň is aGermannoun. It means: Plural selten Pronounced [ˈʒiːzɛɲ].

Key facts for žízeň
PropertyValue
Headwordžízeň
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʒiːzɛɲ]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

žízeň 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 žízeň is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʒiːzɛɲ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for žízeň 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 žízeň, spelled Ž-Í-Z-E-Ň, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural selten
  2. 2
    großes Verlangen etwas trinken zu müssen: Durst

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "žízeň"?
"žízeň" is spelled Ž-Í-Z-E-Ň. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʒiːzɛɲ].
What does "žízeň" mean?
As a noun, "žízeň" means: Plural selten
How do you pronounce "žízeň"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "žízeň" is [ˈʒiːzɛɲ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "žízeň" come from?
"žízeň" 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.