heilige Schrift
[ˌhaɪ̯lɪɡə ˈʃʁɪft]
The verdict
“heilige Schrift” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - religiöse Schrift oder kanonisierte Textsammlung, die richtungsweisend und verbindlich für die Ausübung der jeweiligen Religion ist, beispielsweise die Bibel für Christen, der Tanach und der Talmud...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heilige Schrift |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌhaɪ̯lɪɡə ˈʃʁɪft] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heilige Schrift” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for heilige Schrift is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌhaɪ̯lɪɡə ˈʃʁɪft]. 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: "religiöse Schrift oder kanonisierte Textsammlung, die richtungsweisend und verbindlich für die Ausübung der jeweiligen Religion ist, beispielsweise die Bibel für Christen, der Tanach und der Talmud...".
heilige Schrift doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is heilige Schrift, spelled H-E-I-L-I-G-E- -S-C-H-R-I-F-T.
Definition
- 1religiöse Schrift oder kanonisierte Textsammlung, die richtungsweisend und verbindlich für die Ausübung der jeweiligen Religion ist, beispielsweise die Bibel für Christen, der Tanach und der Talmud für Juden, der Koran für Muslime
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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Using “heilige Schrift”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-E-I-L-I-G-E- -S-C-H-R-I-F-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.