field sobriety test

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The verdict

“field sobriety test” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - 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) - eine Prüfung bei einer Person auf Konsum von alkoholischen Substanzen

Key facts for field sobriety test
PropertyValue
Headwordfield sobriety test
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “field sobriety test” sits in German frequency

field sobriety test falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for field sobriety test is 19 letters long, classified as a 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: "eine Prüfung bei einer Person auf Konsum von alkoholischen Substanzen".

No misspelling variants are generated for field sobriety test 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 field sobriety test, spelled F-I-E-L-D- -S-O-B-R-I-E-T-Y- -T-E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine Prüfung bei einer Person auf Konsum von alkoholischen Substanzen

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "field sobriety test"?
"field sobriety test" is spelled F-I-E-L-D- -S-O-B-R-I-E-T-Y- -T-E-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "field sobriety test" mean?
As a noun, "field sobriety test" means: eine Prüfung bei einer Person auf Konsum von alkoholischen Substanzen
How do you pronounce "field sobriety test"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "field sobriety test" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "field sobriety test" come from?
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Using “field sobriety test”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is F-I-E-L-D- -S-O-B-R-I-E-T-Y- -T-E-S-T - 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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