Litanei
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#91,898
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Litanei is aGermannoun. It means: eine Form gemeinschaftlichen Betens, bei der ein Vorbeter oder Vorsänger Anrufungen Gottes oder der Heiligen vorträgt; diese Anrufungen werden von der Gemeinde mit einem gleichbleibenden Ruf (beisp... Pronounced [litaˈnaɪ̯].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Litanei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [litaˈnaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Litanei is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [litaˈnaɪ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #91,898 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Litanei 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 Litanei, spelled L-I-T-A-N-E-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Form gemeinschaftlichen Betens, bei der ein Vorbeter oder Vorsänger Anrufungen Gottes oder der Heiligen vorträgt; diese Anrufungen werden von der Gemeinde mit einem gleichbleibenden Ruf (beispielsweise „Erbarme dich unser!“ oder „Bitte für uns!“) beantwortet
- 2eine immer wieder vorgebrachte Klage, Ermahnung oder Forderung
- 3ein lange, monotone Aufzählung von Dingen oder Zusammenhängen
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Frequency rank: #91,898 in German
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