Jahwe
[ˈjaːve]
The verdict
“Jahwe” is uncommon German (frequency #61,640 among 699 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,640
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alttestamentlicher Name Gottes
Corpus desk
Index DE-jahwe · Jahwe · German
Jahwe · rank #61,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,640
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH jahrelanges
Nearest frequency peer: jahrelanges (-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 „Jahwe“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- isolierter
isolierter
38,365 corpus weight
- jahrelanges
jahrelanges
38,362 corpus weight
- Jahwe
Jahwe
38,361 corpus weight
- jardin
jardin
38,360 corpus weight
- Jarl
Jarl
38,359 corpus weight
- Jaroslav
Jaroslav
38,358 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Jahwe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jahwe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjaːve] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Jahwe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Jahwe is uncommon German at frequency #61,640 among 699 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈjaːve]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "alttestamentlicher Name Gottes".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Jahwe, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct German form is Jahwe, spelled J-A-H-W-E.
Definition
- 1alttestamentlicher Name Gottes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jahwe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Im Urtext gibt es viele Namen für Gott, der wesentliche Name Jahwe bedeutet "Ich bin da" - ein Ausdruck für Gottes Erfahrbarkeit.“
Wo war Jahwe während der Shoah?
Synonyms
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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