Leitsatz
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,667
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Leitsatz is aGermannoun. It means: grundlegende Idee oder Regel, oft in Form eines prägnanten Grundsatzes ausgedrückt, die als Leitprinzip dient und Denken sowie Handeln lenkt Pronounced [ˈlaɪ̯tˌzat͡s].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leitsatz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaɪ̯tˌzat͡s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Leitsatz is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlaɪ̯tˌzat͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,667 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Leitsatz 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 Leitsatz, spelled L-E-I-T-S-A-T-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1grundlegende Idee oder Regel, oft in Form eines prägnanten Grundsatzes ausgedrückt, die als Leitprinzip dient und Denken sowie Handeln lenkt
- 2knappe Zusammenfassung der tragenden Gründe einer (gerichtlichen) Entscheidung in Satzform
Frequency rank: #50,667 in German
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