Proselyt
[pʁozeˈlyːt]
The verdict
“Proselyt” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Neues Testament: „ein vom Heidentum zum Judentum Bekehrter“
Corpus desk
Index DE-proselyt · Proselyt · German
Proselyt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Proselyt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁozeˈlyːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Proselyt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Proselyt is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [pʁozeˈlyːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Proselyt in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Proselyt, spelled P-R-O-S-E-L-Y-T.
Definition
- 1Neues Testament: „ein vom Heidentum zum Judentum Bekehrter“
- 2Person, die in eine Glaubensgemeinschaft eingetreten ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Proselyt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Vorschlag fand den Beifall der ganzen Gemeinde, und sie wählten Stephanus, einen Mann, erfüllt vom Glauben und vom Heiligen Geist, ferner Philippus und Prochorus, Nikanor und Timon, Parmenas und Nikolaus, einen Proselyten aus Antiochia.“
„Die bekannteste - die des syrischen Proselyten Onkelos - wird merkwürdigerweise noch heute in den gebräuchlichen Bibelexemplaren der Juden meist neben den hebräischen Text gedruckt.“
Synonyms
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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.