Aufsichtspflicht
[ˈaʊ̯fzɪçt͡sˌp͡flɪçt]
The verdict
“Aufsichtspflicht” is an uncommon German word, ranked #61,299 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #61,299
- frequency rank, German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - gesetzlich vorgeschriebene Pflicht, Personen, insbesondere Minderjährige, oder Gegenstände zu beaufsichtigen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aufsichtspflicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fzɪçt͡sˌp͡flɪçt] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #61,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Aufsichtspflicht” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Aufsichtspflicht is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaʊ̯fzɪçt͡sˌp͡flɪçt]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,299 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "gesetzlich vorgeschriebene Pflicht, Personen, insbesondere Minderjährige, oder Gegenstände zu beaufsichtigen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Aufsichtspflicht, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Aufsichtspflicht, spelled A-U-F-S-I-C-H-T-S-P-F-L-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1gesetzlich vorgeschriebene Pflicht, Personen, insbesondere Minderjährige, oder Gegenstände zu beaufsichtigen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Aufsichtspflicht”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-F-S-I-C-H-T-S-P-F-L-I-C-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaʊ̯fzɪçt͡sˌp͡flɪçt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.