Norddeutscher Bund
[ˌnɔʁtdɔɪ̯t͡ʃɐ ˈbʊnt]
The verdict
“Norddeutscher Bund” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - von 1866 bis 1871 existierender Zusammenschluss aller deutscher Staaten nördlich der Mainlinie unter Führung Preußens
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Norddeutscher Bund |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌnɔʁtdɔɪ̯t͡ʃɐ ˈbʊnt] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Norddeutscher Bund” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Norddeutscher Bund is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌnɔʁtdɔɪ̯t͡ʃɐ ˈbʊnt]. 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: "von 1866 bis 1871 existierender Zusammenschluss aller deutscher Staaten nördlich der Mainlinie unter Führung Preußens".
No misspelling variants are generated for Norddeutscher Bund 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 Norddeutscher Bund, spelled N-O-R-D-D-E-U-T-S-C-H-E-R- -B-U-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1von 1866 bis 1871 existierender Zusammenschluss aller deutscher Staaten nördlich der Mainlinie unter Führung Preußens
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 N-O-R-D-D-E-U-T-S-C-H-E-R- -B-U-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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