Eiserner Kanzler
[ˌaɪ̯zɐnɐ ˈkant͡slɐ]
The verdict
“Eiserner Kanzler” 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) - Beiname des preußischen Ministerpräsidenten und Reichskanzlers Otto von Bismarck ^(→ WP)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eiserner Kanzler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌaɪ̯zɐnɐ ˈkant͡slɐ] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Eiserner Kanzler” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Eiserner Kanzler is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌaɪ̯zɐnɐ ˈkant͡slɐ]. 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: "Beiname des preußischen Ministerpräsidenten und Reichskanzlers Otto von Bismarck ^(→ WP)".
No misspelling variants are generated for Eiserner Kanzler 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 Eiserner Kanzler, spelled E-I-S-E-R-N-E-R- -K-A-N-Z-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Beiname des preußischen Ministerpräsidenten und Reichskanzlers Otto von Bismarck ^(→ WP)
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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Using “Eiserner Kanzler”
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- The one correct German spelling is E-I-S-E-R-N-E-R- -K-A-N-Z-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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