heilige Schrift

/[ˌhaɪ̯lɪɡə ˈʃʁɪft]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

heilige Schrift is aGermanphrase. It means: 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... Pronounced [ˌhaɪ̯lɪɡə ˈʃʁɪft].

Key facts for heilige Schrift
PropertyValue
Headwordheilige Schrift
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌhaɪ̯lɪɡə ˈʃʁɪft]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

heilige Schrift is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for heilige Schrift is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, 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...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for heilige Schrift in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 heilige Schrift, spelled H-E-I-L-I-G-E- -S-C-H-R-I-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 für Juden, der Koran für Muslime

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "heilige Schrift"?
"heilige Schrift" is spelled H-E-I-L-I-G-E- -S-C-H-R-I-F-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌhaɪ̯lɪɡə ˈʃʁɪft].
What does "heilige Schrift" mean?
As a phrase, "heilige Schrift" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "heilige Schrift"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "heilige Schrift" is [ˌhaɪ̯lɪɡə ˈʃʁɪft]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "heilige Schrift" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.