Opium des Volkes
[ˌoːpi̯ʊm dɛs ˈfɔlkəs]
The verdict
“Opium des Volkes” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Religion
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Opium des Volkes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌoːpi̯ʊm dɛs ˈfɔlkəs] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Opium des Volkes” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Opium des Volkes is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌoːpi̯ʊm dɛs ˈfɔlkəs]. 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: "Religion".
No misspelling variants are generated for Opium des Volkes 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 Opium des Volkes, spelled O-P-I-U-M- -D-E-S- -V-O-L-K-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Religion
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- The one correct German spelling is O-P-I-U-M- -D-E-S- -V-O-L-K-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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