überwinden
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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überwinden is aFrenchverb. It means: Surmonter, dépasser quelque chose. Pronounced \yːbɐˈ.vɪn.dn̩\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | überwinden |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \yːbɐˈ.vɪn.dn̩\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for überwinden is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \yːbɐˈ.vɪn.dn̩\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for überwinden in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 French form is überwinden, spelled Ü-B-E-R-W-I-N-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Surmonter, dépasser quelque chose.
- 2Franchir, traverser un obstacle.
- 3Battre, vaincre.
- 4Se résoudre (à faire quelque chose que l’on n’aime pas).
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