ethnische Säuberung
[ˌɛtnɪʃə ˈzɔɪ̯bəʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“ethnische Säuberung” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — gewaltsames Entfernen – durch Deportation, Umsiedlung, Vertreibung, Mord oder anderer Gräuel – einer oder mehrerer ethnischer Gruppen aus einem bestimmten ethnisch gemischten Siedlungsgebiet zuguns...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ethnische Säuberung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌɛtnɪʃə ˈzɔɪ̯bəʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ethnische Säuberung” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ethnische Säuberung is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌɛtnɪʃə ˈzɔɪ̯bəʁʊŋ]. 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: "gewaltsames Entfernen – durch Deportation, Umsiedlung, Vertreibung, Mord oder anderer Gräuel – einer oder mehrerer ethnischer Gruppen aus einem bestimmten ethnisch gemischten Siedlungsgebiet zuguns...".
No misspelling variants are generated for ethnische Säuberung 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 ethnische Säuberung, spelled E-T-H-N-I-S-C-H-E- -S-Ä-U-B-E-R-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1gewaltsames Entfernen – durch Deportation, Umsiedlung, Vertreibung, Mord oder anderer Gräuel – einer oder mehrerer ethnischer Gruppen aus einem bestimmten ethnisch gemischten Siedlungsgebiet zugunsten des Wohn- und Lebensrechts einer einzigen Ethnie
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- The one correct German spelling is E-T-H-N-I-S-C-H-E- -S-Ä-U-B-E-R-U-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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