95 Thesen

/[ˈfʏnfʔʊntˈnɔɪ̯ntsɪç ˈteːzn̩]/ phrase

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

95 Thesen is aGermanphrase. It means: Ursprünglich auf Latein von Martin Luther verfasstes Dokument mit 95 Sätzen oder rhetorischen Fragen gegen damalige Praktiken der katholischen Kirche, zuforderst dem Ablasshandel. Das wissenschaftl... Pronounced [ˈfʏnfʔʊntˈnɔɪ̯ntsɪç ˈteːzn̩].

Key facts for 95 Thesen
PropertyValue
Headword95 Thesen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈfʏnfʔʊntˈnɔɪ̯ntsɪç ˈteːzn̩]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for 95 Thesen is 9 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfʏnfʔʊntˈnɔɪ̯ntsɪç ˈteːzn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for 95 Thesen 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 95 Thesen, spelled 9-5- -T-H-E-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ursprünglich auf Latein von Martin Luther verfasstes Dokument mit 95 Sätzen oder rhetorischen Fragen gegen damalige Praktiken der katholischen Kirche, zuforderst dem Ablasshandel. Das wissenschaftlich nicht gesicherte Datum der Veröffentlichung am 31. Oktober 1517 markiert den Beginn der Reformation.
  2. 2
    (meist) radikale Forderungen, die an eine Organisation oder Institution gestellt werden

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "95 Thesen"?
"95 Thesen" is spelled 9-5- -T-H-E-S-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈfʏnfʔʊntˈnɔɪ̯ntsɪç ˈteːzn̩].
What does "95 Thesen" mean?
As a phrase, "95 Thesen" means: Ursprünglich auf Latein von Martin Luther verfasstes Dokument mit 95 Sätzen oder rhetorischen Fragen gegen damalige Praktiken der katholischen Kirche, zuforderst dem Ablasshandel. Das wissenschaftl...
How do you pronounce "95 Thesen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "95 Thesen" is [ˈfʏnfʔʊntˈnɔɪ̯ntsɪç ˈteːzn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "95 Thesen" come from?
"95 Thesen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.