eiserne Jungfrau
[ˈaɪ̯zɐnə ˈjʊŋfʁaʊ̯]
The verdict
“eiserne Jungfrau” 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) - mittelalterliches Foltergerät
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eiserne Jungfrau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯zɐnə ˈjʊŋfʁaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eiserne Jungfrau” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for eiserne Jungfrau is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯zɐnə ˈjʊŋfʁaʊ̯]. 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: "mittelalterliches Foltergerät".
No misspelling variants are generated for eiserne Jungfrau 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 Jungfrau, spelled E-I-S-E-R-N-E- -J-U-N-G-F-R-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mittelalterliches Foltergerät
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- The one correct German spelling is E-I-S-E-R-N-E- -J-U-N-G-F-R-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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