Christmas

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Christmas is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɹɪsməs]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,384 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "christliches Fest der Geburt Jesu Christi, das jährlich am 25. Dezember gefeiert wird und meist gesetzlicher Feiertag ist, sowie die Zeit um dieses Fest herum: Weihnachten".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for Christmas, with forms such as "cchristmas", "chhristmas", and "chirstmas". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Christus", "Christa", "Christian", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Christmas, spelled C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.