zpočátku
[ˈspɔt͡ʃaːtkʊ]
The verdict
“zpočátku” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - am Beginn stehend; zuerst, anfangs, anfänglich, zunächst, zu Beginn
Corpus desk
Index DE-zpocatku · zpočátku · German
zpočátku · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zpočátku |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈspɔt͡ʃaːtkʊ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zpočátku“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zpočátku is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed [ˈspɔt͡ʃaːtkʊ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "am Beginn stehend; zuerst, anfangs, anfänglich, zunächst, zu Beginn".
zpočátku doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is zpočátku, spelled Z-P-O-Č-Á-T-K-U.
Definition
- 1am Beginn stehend; zuerst, anfangs, anfänglich, zunächst, zu Beginn
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zpočátku appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To jsou skutečnosti, ke kterým jsem zpočátku přihlížela značně s nedůvěrou.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.