eiserne Hochzeit
[ˈaɪ̯zɐnə ˈhɔxt͡saɪ̯t]
The verdict
“eiserne Hochzeit” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jubiläumsfest, das ein verheiratetes Paar 65 Jahre nach der eigentlichen oder grünen Hochzeit feiert
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eiserne Hochzeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯zɐnə ˈhɔxt͡saɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eiserne Hochzeit” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for eiserne Hochzeit is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯zɐnə ˈhɔxt͡saɪ̯t]. 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: "Jubiläumsfest, das ein verheiratetes Paar 65 Jahre nach der eigentlichen oder grünen Hochzeit feiert".
No misspelling variants are generated for eiserne Hochzeit 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 eiserne Hochzeit, spelled E-I-S-E-R-N-E- -H-O-C-H-Z-E-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jubiläumsfest, das ein verheiratetes Paar 65 Jahre nach der eigentlichen oder grünen Hochzeit feiert
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 E-I-S-E-R-N-E- -H-O-C-H-Z-E-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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