Profanierung
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Language
German
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Profanierung is aGermannoun. It means: nichtsakrale Verwendung von etwas, das eigentlich sakral ist/war; die Entweihung/Entwürdigung eines materiellen (kultischen) Gegenstandes oder immaterieller Dinge, beispielsweise Worte religiöser B... Pronounced [pʁofaˈniːʁʊŋ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Profanierung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁofaˈniːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Profanierung is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pʁofaˈniːʁʊŋ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Profanierung 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 Profanierung, spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-I-E-R-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nichtsakrale Verwendung von etwas, das eigentlich sakral ist/war; die Entweihung/Entwürdigung eines materiellen (kultischen) Gegenstandes oder immaterieller Dinge, beispielsweise Worte religiöser Bedeutung (absichtlich-motiviert oder unbewusst oder gedankenlos)
- 2Beendigung der kirchlichen Nutzung einer Kirche (wegen Abriss oder Umnutzung)
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