zum Wohl
Letters
8 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
zum Wohl is aGermanphrase. It means: ein meist nur ausgesprochener Wunsch des Wohlergehens aller, die in einer geselligen Trinkrunde das Glas erheben und anstoßen, das heißt, die Gläser klingen zu lassen Pronounced [t͡sʊm ˈvoːl].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zum Wohl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t͡sʊm ˈvoːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for zum Wohl is 8 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡sʊm ˈvoːl]. 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 zum Wohl 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 zum Wohl, spelled Z-U-M- -W-O-H-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein meist nur ausgesprochener Wunsch des Wohlergehens aller, die in einer geselligen Trinkrunde das Glas erheben und anstoßen, das heißt, die Gläser klingen zu lassen
- 2in Österreich und Teilen Deutschlands gebräuchlicher Ausruf für Gesundheit nach dem Niesen
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