wiederum

/\ˈviːdəʁʊm\/ adv

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

wiederum is anFrenchadv. It means: À nouveau, de nouveau (« wiederum » est la forme accentuée de « wieder », et s’emploie lorsque l’action se répète un certain temps après la première. De nombreuses tournures en allemand utilisant c... Pronounced \ˈviːdəʁʊm\.

Key facts for wiederum
PropertyValue
Headwordwiederum
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\ˈviːdəʁʊm\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

wiederum 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 wiederum is 8 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈviːdəʁʊm\. 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: "À nouveau, de nouveau (« wiederum » est la forme accentuée de « wieder », et s’emploie lorsque l’action se répète un certain temps après la première. De nombreuses tournures en allemand utilisant c...".

No misspelling variants are generated for wiederum 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 wiederum, spelled W-I-E-D-E-R-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À nouveau, de nouveau (« wiederum » est la forme accentuée de « wieder », et s’emploie lorsque l’action se répète un certain temps après la première. De nombreuses tournures en allemand utilisant ce mot sont idiomatiques, et la traduction en français est parfois très éloignée de la traduction littérale).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wiederum"?
"wiederum" is spelled W-I-E-D-E-R-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈviːdəʁʊm\.
What does "wiederum" mean?
As an adv, "wiederum" means: À nouveau, de nouveau (« wiederum » est la forme accentuée de « wieder », et s’emploie lorsque l’action se répète un certain temps après la première. De nombreuses tournures en allemand utilisant c...
How do you pronounce "wiederum"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wiederum" is \ˈviːdəʁʊm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wiederum" 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.