Lied ohne Worte
[liːt ˈoːnə ˈvɔʁtə]
The verdict
“Lied ohne Worte” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ^(→ WP) um 1828 begründete Musikgattung, bei der ein Instrument den Part der liedhaften Singstimme übernimmt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lied ohne Worte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [liːt ˈoːnə ˈvɔʁtə] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lied ohne Worte” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Lied ohne Worte is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [liːt ˈoːnə ˈvɔʁtə]. 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: "eine von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ^(→ WP) um 1828 begründete Musikgattung, bei der ein Instrument den Part der liedhaften Singstimme übernimmt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Lied ohne Worte 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 Lied ohne Worte, spelled L-I-E-D- -O-H-N-E- -W-O-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ^(→ WP) um 1828 begründete Musikgattung, bei der ein Instrument den Part der liedhaften Singstimme übernimmt
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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- The one correct German spelling is L-I-E-D- -O-H-N-E- -W-O-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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