Baptismus
German, noun[bapˈtɪsmʊs]
Baptismus is spelled B-A-P-T-I-S-M-U-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written German, the 326,119th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baptismus is a German masculine noun meaning “the Baptist denomination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Lehre der evangelischen Freikirchen, bei der ein persönliches Glaubensbekenntnis einer erwachsenen Person für…”.
What does Baptismus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe Baptist denomination
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lehre der evangelischen Freikirchen, bei der ein persönliches Glaubensbekenntnis einer erwachsenen Person für die Taufe vorausgesetzt wird
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce Baptismus?
- [bapˈtɪsmʊs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Baptismus in German?
Baptismus appears about once in every 31 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).