žrát
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | žrát |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʒraːt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Nahrung aufnehmen; fressen
- 2Lebensmittel einnehmen; essen
- 3Treibstoff/Energie verbrauchen; schlucken
- 4(viel) Zeit in Anspruch nehmen; zeitaufwändig sein
- 5durchstechen und Blut saugen; stechen
- 6etwas zersetzend angreifen; ätzen, zerfressen
- 7durch etwas verärgert sein, schlechte Laune haben; ärgern, grämen, verdrießen, leid tun, bedauern, wurmen
- 8von etwas begeistert sein, etwas sehr hochschätzen; vergöttern
- 9für etwas voller Engagement, mit Leidenschaft, Eifer eintreten; eifern, sich zerreißen
- 10die Stellung, Aussage von jemandem unkritisch übernehmen; abnehmen, für bare Münze nehmen
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