Eiserner Vorhang
[ˌaɪ̯zɐnɐ ˈfoːɐ̯ˌhaŋ]
The verdict
“Eiserner Vorhang” 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) - die (ideologische) Grenze zwischen dem sowjetisch dominierten Osteuropa und dem freien Westeuropa zur Zeit des Kalten Krieges
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eiserner Vorhang |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌaɪ̯zɐnɐ ˈfoːɐ̯ˌhaŋ] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Eiserner Vorhang” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Eiserner Vorhang is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌaɪ̯zɐnɐ ˈfoːɐ̯ˌhaŋ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Eiserner Vorhang 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 Vorhang, spelled E-I-S-E-R-N-E-R- -V-O-R-H-A-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die (ideologische) Grenze zwischen dem sowjetisch dominierten Osteuropa und dem freien Westeuropa zur Zeit des Kalten Krieges
- 2brandhemmende bewegliche Trennung zwischen Bühne und Zuschauerraum
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- The one correct German spelling is E-I-S-E-R-N-E-R- -V-O-R-H-A-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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