klášter
[ˈklaːʃtɛr]
The verdict
“klášter” 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
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gebäude (Gebäudekomplex), in denen Menschen (meist Mönche oder Nonnen) in einer auf die Ausübung ihres Glaubens konzentrierten Lebensweise abgeschieden zusammenleben; Kloster, Stift
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | klášter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈklaːʃtɛr] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “klášter” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for klášter is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈklaːʃtɛr]. 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: "Gebäude (Gebäudekomplex), in denen Menschen (meist Mönche oder Nonnen) in einer auf die Ausübung ihres Glaubens konzentrierten Lebensweise abgeschieden zusammenleben; Kloster, Stift".
No misspelling variants are generated for klášter 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 klášter, spelled K-L-Á-Š-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gebäude (Gebäudekomplex), in denen Menschen (meist Mönche oder Nonnen) in einer auf die Ausübung ihres Glaubens konzentrierten Lebensweise abgeschieden zusammenleben; Kloster, Stift
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- The one correct German spelling is K-L-Á-Š-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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