žvýkat
Letters
6 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
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žvýkat is aGermanverb. It means: mit den Zähnen zerkleinern; kauen Pronounced [ˈʒviːkat].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | žvýkat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʒviːkat] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for žvýkat is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʒviːkat]. 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: "mit den Zähnen zerkleinern; kauen".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for žvýkat 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 žvýkat, spelled Ž-V-Ý-K-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit den Zähnen zerkleinern; kauen
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