Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche
[ˈleːzə ʔʊnt ˈʁɛçtʃʁaɪ̯pˌʃvɛçə]
The verdict
“Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche” 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
- 30
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — besondere Probleme beim Erlernen von Lesen und Rechtschreibung bei normaler Intelligenz
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈleːzə ʔʊnt ˈʁɛçtʃʁaɪ̯pˌʃvɛçə] |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche is 30 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈleːzə ʔʊnt ˈʁɛçtʃʁaɪ̯pˌʃvɛçə]. 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: "besondere Probleme beim Erlernen von Lesen und Rechtschreibung bei normaler Intelligenz".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche 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 Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche, spelled L-E-S-E--- -U-N-D- -R-E-C-H-T-S-C-H-R-E-I-B-S-C-H-W-Ä-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1besondere Probleme beim Erlernen von Lesen und Rechtschreibung bei normaler Intelligenz
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche”
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- The one correct German spelling is L-E-S-E--- -U-N-D- -R-E-C-H-T-S-C-H-R-E-I-B-S-C-H-W-Ä-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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