Eretz Israel
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The verdict
“Eretz Israel” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - traditionelle hebräische Bezeichnung für das Land, das in der Tora meist Land Kanaan genannt wird, in dem die Israeliten nach biblischer Darstellung sesshaft wurden und mehrere Jahrhunderte neben K...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eretz Israel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Eretz Israel” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Eretz Israel is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "traditionelle hebräische Bezeichnung für das Land, das in der Tora meist Land Kanaan genannt wird, in dem die Israeliten nach biblischer Darstellung sesshaft wurden und mehrere Jahrhunderte neben K...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Eretz Israel, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Eretz Israel, spelled E-R-E-T-Z- -I-S-R-A-E-L.
Definition
- 1traditionelle hebräische Bezeichnung für das Land, das in der Tora meist Land Kanaan genannt wird, in dem die Israeliten nach biblischer Darstellung sesshaft wurden und mehrere Jahrhunderte neben Kanaanäern, Philistern und anderen Völkern lebten
This word in other languages
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-R-E-T-Z- -I-S-R-A-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.