ministry
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The verdict
“ministry” is uncommon German (frequency #75,970 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,970
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ministerium
Corpus desk
Index DE-ministry · ministry · German
ministry · rank #75,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,970
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mindestpreis
Nearest frequency peer: Mindestpreis (-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 „ministry“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- mexikanisch…
mexikanisches
24,035 corpus weight
- MI6
MI6
24,034 corpus weight
- Mindestpreis
Mindestpreis
24,032 corpus weight
- ministry
ministry
24,031 corpus weight
- Missionieru…
Missionierung
24,030 corpus weight
- misslungene
misslungene
24,029 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ministry“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ministry |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ministry“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ministry is uncommon German at frequency #75,970 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ministerium".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ministry, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is ministry, spelled M-I-N-I-S-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Ministerium
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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