Dystopie
[dʏstoˈpiː]
The verdict
“Dystopie” is an uncommon German word, ranked #52,774 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #52,774
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - anatomisch unübliche Lage von Gewebe oder eines Organs
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dystopie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dʏstoˈpiː] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dystopie” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Dystopie is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dʏstoˈpiː]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,774 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Dystopie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Dystopie, spelled D-Y-S-T-O-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1anatomisch unübliche Lage von Gewebe oder eines Organs
- 2Geschichte, die in einer fiktiven Gesellschaft spielt, die sich zum Negativen entwickelt hat, (literarische) Endzeit
Synonyms
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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 “Dystopie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-Y-S-T-O-P-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [dʏstoˈpiː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.