Neues Testament

/[ˌnɔɪ̯əs tɛstaˈmɛnt]/ phrase

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German

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Neues Testament is aGermanphrase. It means: das zentrale Schriftwerk des Christentums, das vor allen Dingen Erzählungen über Wort- und Tatzeugnisse von Jesus Christus sowie einiger ausgewählter erster Jünger, insbesondere der Apostel sowie e... Pronounced [ˌnɔɪ̯əs tɛstaˈmɛnt].

Key facts for Neues Testament
PropertyValue
HeadwordNeues Testament
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌnɔɪ̯əs tɛstaˈmɛnt]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Neues Testament is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Neues Testament is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌnɔɪ̯əs tɛstaˈmɛnt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for Neues Testament 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 Neues Testament, spelled N-E-U-E-S- -T-E-S-T-A-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    das zentrale Schriftwerk des Christentums, das vor allen Dingen Erzählungen über Wort- und Tatzeugnisse von Jesus Christus sowie einiger ausgewählter erster Jünger, insbesondere der Apostel sowie einige Briefe und eine Apokalypse enthält
  2. 2
    diejenige heilgeschichtliche Periode, die zum Einen die vorösterliche Zeit Jesu Christi und der Apostel und andererseits die nachösterliche Zeit seit der Auferstehung Jesu bis zu dessen Wiederkunft umfasst

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How do you spell "Neues Testament"?
"Neues Testament" is spelled N-E-U-E-S- -T-E-S-T-A-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌnɔɪ̯əs tɛstaˈmɛnt].
What does "Neues Testament" mean?
As a phrase, "Neues Testament" means: das zentrale Schriftwerk des Christentums, das vor allen Dingen Erzählungen über Wort- und Tatzeugnisse von Jesus Christus sowie einiger ausgewählter erster Jünger, insbesondere der Apostel sowie e...
How do you pronounce "Neues Testament"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Neues Testament" is [ˌnɔɪ̯əs tɛstaˈmɛnt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Neues Testament" come from?
"Neues Testament" 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.