Exkommunikation
[ɛkskɔmunikaˈt͡si̯oːn]
The verdict
“Exkommunikation” is uncommon German (frequency #64,248 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,248
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Ausschluss aus einer kirchlichen Gemeinschaft
Corpus desk
Index DE-exkommunikation · Exkommunikation · German
Exkommunikation · rank #64,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,248
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH EWS
Nearest frequency peer: EWS (-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 „Exkommunikation“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Eunuchen
Eunuchen
35,756 corpus weight
- Europarats
Europarats
35,755 corpus weight
- EWS
EWS
35,754 corpus weight
- Exkommunika…
Exkommunikation
35,753 corpus weight
- Exporteur
Exporteur
35,752 corpus weight
- Eyeliner
Eyeliner
35,751 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Exkommunikation“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Exkommunikation |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛkskɔmunikaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #64,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Exkommunikation“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Exkommunikation is uncommon German at frequency #64,248 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛkskɔmunikaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Ausschluss aus einer kirchlichen Gemeinschaft".
Zero misspellings are on record for Exkommunikation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Exkommunikation, spelled E-X-K-O-M-M-U-N-I-K-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1der Ausschluss aus einer kirchlichen Gemeinschaft
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Exkommunikation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nur fünf Jahre später bedrohte ein in Toulouse abgehaltenes Konzil die neuen Ketzer und ihre Förderer mit Exkommunikation und Kerker.“
„Die Nonne erklärte mir, daß jede von ihnen nur zehn savoyardische Soldi pro Tag erhalten würde; bei Strafe der Exkommunikation dürften sie ohne Wissen der Äbtissin nichts besitzen.“
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); 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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).