Militärbefehlshaber
[miliˈtɛːɐ̯bəˌfeːlshaːbɐ]
The verdict
“Militärbefehlshaber” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die die militärische Befehlsgewalt über einen Militärverband hat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Militärbefehlshaber |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [miliˈtɛːɐ̯bəˌfeːlshaːbɐ] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Militärbefehlshaber” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Militärbefehlshaber is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [miliˈtɛːɐ̯bəˌfeːlshaːbɐ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Militärbefehlshaber 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 Militärbefehlshaber, spelled M-I-L-I-T-Ä-R-B-E-F-E-H-L-S-H-A-B-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Person, die die militärische Befehlsgewalt über einen Militärverband hat
- 2„hohe Dienststellung in von der Wehrmacht besetzten Ländern im Zweiten Weltkrieg“
- 3„für den Kriegsfall vorgesehene Funktion der stellvertretenden Generalkommandos in den Armeekorpsbezirken und einiger Festungsbefehlshaber im Deutschen Kaiserreich“
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 M-I-L-I-T-Ä-R-B-E-F-E-H-L-S-H-A-B-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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