New Age
The verdict
“New Age” 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
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine u.a. von Kalifornien seit den 60er Jahren ausgehende Bewegung, die wegen der globalen, ökologischen und sozialen Krisen in allen Lebensbereichen ein neues Denken und Handeln, ein ganzheitliche...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | New Age |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [njuː ˈʔeːt͡ʃ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “New Age” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for New Age is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [njuː ˈʔeːt͡ʃ]. 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: "eine u.a. von Kalifornien seit den 60er Jahren ausgehende Bewegung, die wegen der globalen, ökologischen und sozialen Krisen in allen Lebensbereichen ein neues Denken und Handeln, ein ganzheitliche...".
No misspelling variants are generated for New Age 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 New Age, spelled N-E-W- -A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine u.a. von Kalifornien seit den 60er Jahren ausgehende Bewegung, die wegen der globalen, ökologischen und sozialen Krisen in allen Lebensbereichen ein neues Denken und Handeln, ein ganzheitliches und spirituelles Selbst- und Weltbewusstsein postuliert
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Using “New Age”
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- The one correct German spelling is N-E-W- -A-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [njuː ˈʔeːt͡ʃ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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