žluva

/[ˈʒlʊva]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

žluva is aGermannoun. It means: gelb- und dunkelfarbiger Singvogel: Goldamsel, Pirol Pronounced [ˈʒlʊva].

Key facts for žluva
PropertyValue
Headwordžluva
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʒlʊva]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

žluva 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 žluva is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʒlʊva]. 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: "gelb- und dunkelfarbiger Singvogel: Goldamsel, Pirol".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for žluva 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 žluva, spelled Ž-L-U-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    gelb- und dunkelfarbiger Singvogel: Goldamsel, Pirol

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "žluva"?
"žluva" is spelled Ž-L-U-V-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʒlʊva].
What does "žluva" mean?
As a noun, "žluva" means: gelb- und dunkelfarbiger Singvogel: Goldamsel, Pirol
How do you pronounce "žluva"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "žluva" is [ˈʒlʊva]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "žluva" come from?
"žluva" 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.