Lithosphäre
[litoˈsfɛːʁə]
The verdict
“Lithosphäre” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die bis in etwa 100 Kilometer Tiefe reichende Gesteinshülle der Erde
Corpus desk
Index DE-lithosphare · Lithosphäre · German
Lithosphäre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lithosphäre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [litoˈsfɛːʁə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Lithosphäre“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Lithosphäre is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [litoˈsfɛːʁə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die bis in etwa 100 Kilometer Tiefe reichende Gesteinshülle der Erde".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lithosphäre, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Lithosphäre, spelled L-I-T-H-O-S-P-H-Ä-R-E.
Definition
- 1die bis in etwa 100 Kilometer Tiefe reichende Gesteinshülle der Erde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lithosphäre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die oberste Schicht der Lithosphäre wird von der Pedosphäre […], der Bodenschicht gebildet. In diesem schmalen Grenzbereich der Erdoberfläche überlagern sich Lithosphäre, Hydrosphäre und Atmosphäre.“
Die Erforschung der kontinentalen Lithosphäre war und ist in Karlsruhe interdisziplinäres Schwerpunktthema verschiedener geowissenschaftlicher als auch ingenieurwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen.
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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.