Agnus Dei
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The verdict
“Agnus Dei” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bezeichnung für Christus im Neuen Testament nach Johannes 1, 29
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Agnus Dei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Agnus Dei” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Agnus Dei is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Agnus Dei, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Agnus Dei, spelled A-G-N-U-S- -D-E-I.
Definition
- 1Bezeichnung für Christus im Neuen Testament nach Johannes 1, 29
- 2Bittruf um Sündenvergebung und Frieden in der katholischen Messe
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Agnus Dei”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-G-N-U-S- -D-E-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.