Pikuach Nefesch
[piˈkuːax ˈnɛfəʃ]
The verdict
“Pikuach Nefesch” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - jüdische Religion: Rettung aus Lebensgefahr; zulässiger Bruch der Gebote der Halacha, insbesondere der Schabbatgesetze bei Lebensgefahr
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pikuach Nefesch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈkuːax ˈnɛfəʃ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pikuach Nefesch” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Pikuach Nefesch is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈkuːax ˈnɛfəʃ]. 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: "jüdische Religion: Rettung aus Lebensgefahr; zulässiger Bruch der Gebote der Halacha, insbesondere der Schabbatgesetze bei Lebensgefahr".
No misspelling variants are generated for Pikuach Nefesch 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 Pikuach Nefesch, spelled P-I-K-U-A-C-H- -N-E-F-E-S-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jüdische Religion: Rettung aus Lebensgefahr; zulässiger Bruch der Gebote der Halacha, insbesondere der Schabbatgesetze bei Lebensgefahr
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- The one correct German spelling is P-I-K-U-A-C-H- -N-E-F-E-S-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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