žrát

/[ʒraːt]/ verb

Letters

4 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

žrát is aGermanverb. It means: Nahrung aufnehmen; fressen Pronounced [ʒraːt].

Key facts for žrát
PropertyValue
Headwordžrát
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ʒraːt]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

žrát 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 žrát is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʒraːt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for žrát 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 žrát, spelled Ž-R-Á-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nahrung aufnehmen; fressen
  2. 2
    Lebensmittel einnehmen; essen
  3. 3
    Treibstoff/Energie verbrauchen; schlucken
  4. 4
    (viel) Zeit in Anspruch nehmen; zeitaufwändig sein
  5. 5
    durchstechen und Blut saugen; stechen
  6. 6
    etwas zersetzend angreifen; ätzen, zerfressen
  7. 7
    durch etwas verärgert sein, schlechte Laune haben; ärgern, grämen, verdrießen, leid tun, bedauern, wurmen
  8. 8
    von etwas begeistert sein, etwas sehr hochschätzen; vergöttern
  9. 9
    für etwas voller Engagement, mit Leidenschaft, Eifer eintreten; eifern, sich zerreißen
  10. 10
    die Stellung, Aussage von jemandem unkritisch übernehmen; abnehmen, für bare Münze nehmen

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "žrát"?
"žrát" is spelled Ž-R-Á-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ʒraːt].
What does "žrát" mean?
As a verb, "žrát" means: Nahrung aufnehmen; fressen
How do you pronounce "žrát"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "žrát" is [ʒraːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "žrát" come from?
"žrát" 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.