Meineid
[ˈmaɪ̯nˌʔaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Meineid” is uncommon German (frequency #59,001 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,001
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verbrechen, das darin besteht, vor Gericht oder vor einer anderen zur Abnahme von Eiden zuständigen Stelle eine falsche Aussage zu beschwören (§ 154 StGB)
Corpus desk
Index DE-meineid · Meineid · German
Meineid · rank #59,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,001
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Meerjungfrauen
Nearest frequency peer: Meerjungfrauen (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Meineid“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Medienbranc…
Medienbranche
41,002 corpus weight
- Meerjungfra…
Meerjungfrauen
41,001 corpus weight
- Meineid
Meineid
41,000 corpus weight
- Meinungsumf…
Meinungsumfragen
40,999 corpus weight
- meistverkau…
meistverkaufte
40,998 corpus weight
- Menschenaff…
Menschenaffen
40,996 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Meineid“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meineid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaɪ̯nˌʔaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Meineid“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Meineid is uncommon German at frequency #59,001 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmaɪ̯nˌʔaɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Verbrechen, das darin besteht, vor Gericht oder vor einer anderen zur Abnahme von Eiden zuständigen Stelle eine falsche Aussage zu beschwören (§ 154 StGB)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Meineid in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 Meineid, spelled M-E-I-N-E-I-D.
Definition
- 1Verbrechen, das darin besteht, vor Gericht oder vor einer anderen zur Abnahme von Eiden zuständigen Stelle eine falsche Aussage zu beschwören (§ 154 StGB)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Meineid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als der Zeuge beschwor, zur Tatzeit mit dem Angeklagten eine Zechtour unternommen zu haben, leistete er einen Meineid.
„Dort, wo Giordano Bruno 33 Jahre zuvor im Büßerhemd kniend sein Todesurteil entgegennahm, im Festsaal des römischen Klosters St. Maria sopra Minerva, hat Galileo Galilei diesen Meineid geschworen.“
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This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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