interstellarer Staub
[ɪntɐstɛˈlaːʁɐ ˈʃtaʊ̯p]
The verdict
“interstellarer Staub” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Anteil am kosmischen Staub, der Teil der interstellaren Materie ist; Staub im Weltraum, der sich zwischen den Sternen einer Galaxie befindet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interstellarer Staub |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɪntɐstɛˈlaːʁɐ ˈʃtaʊ̯p] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “interstellarer Staub” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for interstellarer Staub is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪntɐstɛˈlaːʁɐ ˈʃtaʊ̯p]. 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: "Anteil am kosmischen Staub, der Teil der interstellaren Materie ist; Staub im Weltraum, der sich zwischen den Sternen einer Galaxie befindet".
No misspelling variants are generated for interstellarer Staub 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 interstellarer Staub, spelled I-N-T-E-R-S-T-E-L-L-A-R-E-R- -S-T-A-U-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anteil am kosmischen Staub, der Teil der interstellaren Materie ist; Staub im Weltraum, der sich zwischen den Sternen einer Galaxie befindet
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- The one correct German spelling is I-N-T-E-R-S-T-E-L-L-A-R-E-R- -S-T-A-U-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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