Prüderie
[pʁyːdəˈʁiː]
The verdict
“Prüderie” 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) - übertrieben schamhafte Haltung
Corpus desk
Index DE-pruderie · Prüderie · German
Prüderie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Prüderie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁyːdəˈʁiː] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Prüderie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Prüderie is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [pʁyːdəˈʁiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "übertrieben schamhafte Haltung".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Prüderie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Prüderie, spelled P-R-Ü-D-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1übertrieben schamhafte Haltung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Prüderie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mein Nachbar kann der Prüderie bezichtigt werden.
„Nach Jahrhunderten der Prüderie setzte sich der gesunde Körper um 1900 zum ersten Mal dem Sonnenschein, dem Wind und den entsetzten Blicken der Bürger aus.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.