Vorsicht

/\foːɐ̯zɪçt\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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Vorsicht is aFrenchnoun. It means: Prudence, précaution Pronounced \foːɐ̯zɪçt\.

Key facts for Vorsicht
PropertyValue
HeadwordVorsicht
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\foːɐ̯zɪçt\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Vorsicht is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \foːɐ̯zɪçt\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Vorsicht in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French 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 French form is Vorsicht, spelled V-O-R-S-I-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prudence, précaution
  2. 2
    Attention !, Fais attention !, Fais gaffe !
  3. 3
    Der Curaremeister war eine würdevolle, priesterlich hagere Gestalt. So, erklärte er, schabe man die Zweige, so zerreibe man die Rinde auf einem Stein, so fülle man, Vorsicht, den Saft in einen Bananenblatttrichter. Auf den Trichter komme es an. Er bezweifle, daß Europa etwas ähnlich Kunstvolles hervorgebracht habe. Nun ja, sagte Humboldt. Es sei zweifellos ein sehr respektabler Trichter. — (Daniel Kehlmann, traduit par Juliette Aubert, Die Vermessung der Welt, Rohwolt, Hamburg, 2005) #*: Le maître du curare était un personnage hiératique d’une maigreur sacerdotale. Voilà comment, expliqua-t-il, on grattait les branches, on broyait l’écorce sur une pierre, on faisait couler le jus – attention – dans un entonnoir en feuilles de bananier. Le plus important, c’était l’entonnoir. Il doutait que l’Europe ait jamais produit quelque chose d’aussi élaboré. Certes, dit Humboldt. C’était incontestablement un entonnoir des plus respectables.
  4. 4
    Providence.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Vorsicht"?
"Vorsicht" is spelled V-O-R-S-I-C-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is \foːɐ̯zɪçt\.
What does "Vorsicht" mean?
As a noun, "Vorsicht" means: Prudence, précaution
How do you pronounce "Vorsicht"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Vorsicht" is \foːɐ̯zɪçt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Vorsicht" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.