Erzstift
[ˈɛʁt͡sˌʃtɪft]
The verdict
“Erzstift” is uncommon German (frequency #91,551 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,551
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Besitzungen eines Erzbischofs
Corpus desk
Index DE-erzstift · Erzstift · German
Erzstift · rank #91,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,551
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Erwerbung
Nearest frequency peer: Erwerbung (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Erzstift“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Ersti
Ersti
8,454 corpus weight
- ertrinke
ertrinke
8,452 corpus weight
- Erwerbung
Erwerbung
8,451 corpus weight
- Erzstift
Erzstift
8,450 corpus weight
- Estragon
Estragon
8,447 corpus weight
- Etappenziel
Etappenziel
8,446 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Erzstift“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erzstift |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛʁt͡sˌʃtɪft] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Erzstift“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Erzstift is uncommon German at frequency #91,551 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɛʁt͡sˌʃtɪft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Besitzungen eines Erzbischofs".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Erzstift, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Erzstift, spelled E-R-Z-S-T-I-F-T.
Definition
- 1Besitzungen eines Erzbischofs
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Erzstift appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Erzstift Magdeburg lag in wesentlichen Teilen auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Landes Sachsen-Anhalt mit der Stadt Magdeburg als Mittelpunkt.“
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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