Displaced Person
[dɪsˌplɛɪ̯st ˈpœːɐ̯sn̩]
The verdict
“Displaced Person” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ausländische Zivilperson, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg nach Deutschland (oder in die von der Wehrmacht besetzten Gebiete) vor allem zwecks Zwangsarbeit verschleppt wurde oder ferner dorthin geflüchtet ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Displaced Person |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɪsˌplɛɪ̯st ˈpœːɐ̯sn̩] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Displaced Person” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Displaced Person is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dɪsˌplɛɪ̯st ˈpœːɐ̯sn̩]. 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: "ausländische Zivilperson, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg nach Deutschland (oder in die von der Wehrmacht besetzten Gebiete) vor allem zwecks Zwangsarbeit verschleppt wurde oder ferner dorthin geflüchtet ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Displaced Person 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 Displaced Person, spelled D-I-S-P-L-A-C-E-D- -P-E-R-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ausländische Zivilperson, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg nach Deutschland (oder in die von der Wehrmacht besetzten Gebiete) vor allem zwecks Zwangsarbeit verschleppt wurde oder ferner dorthin geflüchtet ist, und sich bei Kriegsende noch immer innerhalb der Grenzen des damaligen deutschen Reichsgebietes (oder in den besetzten Gebieten) aufhielt
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- The one correct German spelling is D-I-S-P-L-A-C-E-D- -P-E-R-S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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