Demiurg
[demiˈʊʁk]
The verdict
“Demiurg” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schöpfer der Welt, göttlicher Weltbaumeister bei Platon und in der Gnosis
Corpus desk
Index DE-demiurg · Demiurg · German
Demiurg · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Demiurg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [demiˈʊʁk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Demiurg“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Demiurg is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [demiˈʊʁk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schöpfer der Welt, göttlicher Weltbaumeister bei Platon und in der Gnosis".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Demiurg in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Demiurg, spelled D-E-M-I-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Schöpfer der Welt, göttlicher Weltbaumeister bei Platon und in der Gnosis
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Demiurg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So sprechen die antiken Philosophen Plato und Aristoteles vom „Demiurgen“ als Weltschöpfer beziehungsweise vom „ersten unbewegten Beweger“.
Sie spiegeln einen Grundgedanken jener synkretistischen Denkrichtung, die heute als "gnostisch" bezeichnet wird: dass die irdische Welt nicht Werk des wahren Gottes, sondern eines schlechten Demiurgen ist.
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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.