die Stunde der Wahrheit
[diː ˈʃtʊndə deːɐ̯ ˈvaːɐ̯haɪ̯t]
The verdict
“die Stunde der Wahrheit” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - der Zeitpunkt, an dem sich etwas beweisen, entscheiden wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Stunde der Wahrheit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈʃtʊndə deːɐ̯ ˈvaːɐ̯haɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Stunde der Wahrheit” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Stunde der Wahrheit is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈʃtʊndə deːɐ̯ ˈvaːɐ̯haɪ̯t]. 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: "der Zeitpunkt, an dem sich etwas beweisen, entscheiden wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for die Stunde der Wahrheit 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 die Stunde der Wahrheit, spelled D-I-E- -S-T-U-N-D-E- -D-E-R- -W-A-H-R-H-E-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Zeitpunkt, an dem sich etwas beweisen, entscheiden wird
This word in other languages
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 one correct German spelling is D-I-E- -S-T-U-N-D-E- -D-E-R- -W-A-H-R-H-E-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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