civitas
The verdict
“civitas” is uncommon German (frequency #66,094 among 20,081 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,094
- frequency rank, German
- 20,081
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bürgerrecht, Bürgerschaft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | civitas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “civitas” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
civitas is uncommon German at frequency #66,094 among 20,081 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for civitas in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is civitas, spelled C-I-V-I-T-A-S.
Definition
- 1Bürgerrecht, Bürgerschaft
- 2organisierter Verbund von Bürgern; Bürgerschaft
- 3Gesamtheit der Menschen, die in einem Verbund leben; Bürgerschaft
- 4eine Stadt und ihre Gebiete oder auch mehrere Städte umfassender Staat
- 5Stadt
- 6Rom
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 “civitas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-I-V-I-T-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.