Nacht der langen Messer
The verdict
“Nacht der langen Messer” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bezeichnung für ein Ereignis mit einer hohen Anzahl von (Todes-)Opfern, groß angelegte Säuberungsaktionen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nacht der langen Messer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈnaxt deːɐ̯ ˌlaŋən ˈmɛsɐ] |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nacht der langen Messer” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nacht der langen Messer is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnaxt deːɐ̯ ˌlaŋən ˈmɛsɐ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bezeichnung für ein Ereignis mit einer hohen Anzahl von (Todes-)Opfern, groß angelegte Säuberungsaktionen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Nacht der langen Messer 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 Nacht der langen Messer, spelled N-A-C-H-T- -D-E-R- -L-A-N-G-E-N- -M-E-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bezeichnung für ein Ereignis mit einer hohen Anzahl von (Todes-)Opfern, groß angelegte Säuberungsaktionen
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- The one correct German spelling is N-A-C-H-T- -D-E-R- -L-A-N-G-E-N- -M-E-S-S-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈnaxt deːɐ̯ ˌlaŋən ˈmɛsɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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