Erziehungswissenschaft
[ɛɐ̯ˈt͡siːʊŋsˌvɪsn̩ʃaft]
The verdict
“Erziehungswissenschaft” is a German headword at frequency #41,792, used as a noun.
- #41,792
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - deutsche Bezeichnung für Pädagogik
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erziehungswissenschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈt͡siːʊŋsˌvɪsn̩ʃaft] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Frequency rank | #41,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Erziehungswissenschaft” sits in German frequency
Spelling & dictionary insight
The German entry for Erziehungswissenschaft is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈt͡siːʊŋsˌvɪsn̩ʃaft]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,792 in overall German word frequency among 57,060 “E” headwords. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "deutsche Bezeichnung für Pädagogik".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Erziehungswissenschaft, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Erziehungswissenschaft, spelled E-R-Z-I-E-H-U-N-G-S-W-I-S-S-E-N-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1deutsche Bezeichnung für Pädagogik
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Erziehungswissenschaft”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-R-Z-I-E-H-U-N-G-S-W-I-S-S-E-N-S-C-H-A-F-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.