Beichtstuhl

/[ˈbaɪ̯çtˌʃtuːl]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#65,028

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Beichtstuhl is aGermannoun. It means: ein geschlossenes, schrankartiges, hölzernes, oft mit kunstvollem Schnitzwerk verziertes Möbelstück in katholischen Kirchen, das in zwei oder (meist) drei Innenräume geteilt ist: einen für den Prie... Pronounced [ˈbaɪ̯çtˌʃtuːl].

Key facts for Beichtstuhl
PropertyValue
HeadwordBeichtstuhl
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈbaɪ̯çtˌʃtuːl]
Letters11
Frequency rank#65,028
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Beichtstuhl in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Beichtstuhl is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaɪ̯çtˌʃtuːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,028 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ein geschlossenes, schrankartiges, hölzernes, oft mit kunstvollem Schnitzwerk verziertes Möbelstück in katholischen Kirchen, das in zwei oder (meist) drei Innenräume geteilt ist: einen für den Prie...".

No misspelling variants are generated for Beichtstuhl in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German 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 German form is Beichtstuhl, spelled B-E-I-C-H-T-S-T-U-H-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ein geschlossenes, schrankartiges, hölzernes, oft mit kunstvollem Schnitzwerk verziertes Möbelstück in katholischen Kirchen, das in zwei oder (meist) drei Innenräume geteilt ist: einen für den Priester, einen (beziehungsweise zwei) für die Beichtenden (zwei zur alternierenden – nicht gleichzeitigen – Benutzung)

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #65,028 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Beichtstuhl"?
"Beichtstuhl" is spelled B-E-I-C-H-T-S-T-U-H-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbaɪ̯çtˌʃtuːl].
What does "Beichtstuhl" mean?
As a noun, "Beichtstuhl" means: ein geschlossenes, schrankartiges, hölzernes, oft mit kunstvollem Schnitzwerk verziertes Möbelstück in katholischen Kirchen, das in zwei oder (meist) drei Innenräume geteilt ist: einen für den Prie...
How do you pronounce "Beichtstuhl"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Beichtstuhl" is [ˈbaɪ̯çtˌʃtuːl]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.