cảnh sát
[kajŋ̟˧˩ saːt̚˧˦]
The verdict
“cảnh sát” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - für die öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung zuständige Behörde; Polizei
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cảnh sát |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kajŋ̟˧˩ saːt̚˧˦] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cảnh sát” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for cảnh sát is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kajŋ̟˧˩ saːt̚˧˦]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "für die öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung zuständige Behörde; Polizei".
No misspelling variants are generated for cảnh sát 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 cảnh sát, spelled C-Ả-N-H- -S-Á-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1für die öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung zuständige Behörde; Polizei
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-Ả-N-H- -S-Á-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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