doctrine
[dɔk.tʁin]
The verdict
“doctrine” is uncommon German (frequency #81,436 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,436
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doktrin, Lehre, Lehrmeinung
Corpus desk
Index DE-doctrine · doctrine · German
doctrine · rank #81,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,436
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Divergenz
Nearest frequency peer: Divergenz (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „doctrine“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Dienstgeber
Dienstgeber
18,570 corpus weight
- dine
dine
18,567 corpus weight
- Divergenz
Divergenz
18,566 corpus weight
- doctrine
doctrine
18,565 corpus weight
- Dogmatismus
Dogmatismus
18,564 corpus weight
- dolmetschen
dolmetschen
18,563 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „doctrine“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doctrine |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɔk.tʁin] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „doctrine“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
doctrine is uncommon German at frequency #81,436 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [dɔk.tʁin]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Doktrin, Lehre, Lehrmeinung".
No misspelling variants are generated for doctrine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is doctrine, spelled D-O-C-T-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Doktrin, Lehre, Lehrmeinung
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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