vieux haut allemand

/\vjø o al.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

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vieux haut allemand is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ancienne forme de l’allemand (de 750 à 1050 environ). C’est la plus ancienne attestée. Pronounced \vjø o al.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for vieux haut allemand
PropertyValue
Headwordvieux haut allemand
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vjø o al.mɑ̃\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vieux haut allemand is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vieux haut allemand is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjø o al.mɑ̃\. 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: "Ancienne forme de l’allemand (de 750 à 1050 environ). C’est la plus ancienne attestée.".

No misspelling variants are generated for vieux haut allemand 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 vieux haut allemand, spelled V-I-E-U-X- -H-A-U-T- -A-L-L-E-M-A-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne forme de l’allemand (de 750 à 1050 environ). C’est la plus ancienne attestée.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vieux haut allemand"?
"vieux haut allemand" is spelled V-I-E-U-X- -H-A-U-T- -A-L-L-E-M-A-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is \vjø o al.mɑ̃\.
What does "vieux haut allemand" mean?
As a noun, "vieux haut allemand" means: Ancienne forme de l’allemand (de 750 à 1050 environ). C’est la plus ancienne attestée.
How do you pronounce "vieux haut allemand"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vieux haut allemand" is \vjø o al.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vieux haut allemand" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.