Majestät

/[majɛsˈtɛːt]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,592

in German word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Majestät is aGermannoun. It means: Titel von Kaisern und Königen (in der Anrede auch mit vorangehendem Pronomen verwendet) Pronounced [majɛsˈtɛːt]. It ranks #8,592 in German word frequency.

Key facts for Majestät
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HeadwordMajestät
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[majɛsˈtɛːt]
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,592
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Majestät in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Majestät is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [majɛsˈtɛːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,592 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Majestät, with forms such as "amjestät", "maejstät", and "majesstät". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 Majestät, spelled M-A-J-E-S-T-Ä-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Titel von Kaisern und Königen (in der Anrede auch mit vorangehendem Pronomen verwendet)
  2. 2
    eine Eigenschaft wie Herrlichkeit, Erhabenheit oder Größe, die von etwas oder jemanden ausgeht

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amjestät,maejstät,majesstät,majesttä,majesttät,majestätt,majesätt,majetsät,majjestät,majsetät,mjaestät,mmajestät

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Majestät

Misspelling Variants of "Majestät"

amjestät8maejstät8majesstät9majesttä8majesttät9majestätt9majesätt8majetsät8
Misspelling Variants of "Majestät"

Frequency rank: #8,592 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Majestät"?
"Majestät" is spelled M-A-J-E-S-T-Ä-T. The IPA pronunciation is [majɛsˈtɛːt].
What does "Majestät" mean?
As a noun, "Majestät" means: Titel von Kaisern und Königen (in der Anrede auch mit vorangehendem Pronomen verwendet)
What are common misspellings of "Majestät"?
Common misspellings include "amjestät", "maejstät", "majesstät", "majesttä", "majesttät". The correct spelling is "Majestät".
How do you pronounce "Majestät"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Majestät" is [majɛsˈtɛːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Majestät" come from?
"Majestät" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.