Priesterschaft
[ˈpʁiːstɐʃaft]
The verdict
“Priesterschaft” is uncommon German (frequency #98,932 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,932
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesamtheit der Priester
Corpus desk
Index DE-priesterschaft · Priesterschaft · German
Priesterschaft · rank #98,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,932
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Priorin
Nearest frequency peer: Priorin (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Priesterschaft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- potent
potent
1,073 corpus weight
- Priestersch…
Priesterschaft
1,069 corpus weight
- Priorin
Priorin
1,068 corpus weight
- Privathäuse…
Privathäusern
1,067 corpus weight
- Privatsekre…
Privatsekretär
1,066 corpus weight
- Produktions…
Produktionsfirmen
1,065 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Priesterschaft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Priesterschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpʁiːstɐʃaft] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #98,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Priesterschaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Priesterschaft is uncommon German at frequency #98,932 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpʁiːstɐʃaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gesamtheit der Priester".
Priesterschaft has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Priesterschaft, spelled P-R-I-E-S-T-E-R-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Gesamtheit der Priester
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Priesterschaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Für die tschechoslowakische Priesterschaft wird der 13. April und für die ungarischen Geistlichen der 9. Juni 1950 unvergeßlich sein.“
„So unterschiedlich ihre religiösen Kulte und die Organisationen ihrer Priesterschaften immer gewesen sein mögen, eins galt für die meisten Tempel und ihre Verwaltungen: Sie existierten von Einnahmen.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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