Reformationstag
[ʁefɔʁmaˈt͡si̯oːnsˌtaːk]
The verdict
“Reformationstag” is uncommon German (frequency #79,620 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,620
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - gesetzlicher Feiertag in den deutschen Bundesländern Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen, der am 31. Oktober von den evangelischen Kirchen in Gedenken an die ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Reformationstag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁefɔʁmaˈt͡si̯oːnsˌtaːk] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #79,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Reformationstag” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Reformationstag is uncommon German at frequency #79,620 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʁefɔʁmaˈt͡si̯oːnsˌtaːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gesetzlicher Feiertag in den deutschen Bundesländern Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen, der am 31. Oktober von den evangelischen Kirchen in Gedenken an die ...".
Reformationstag doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Reformationstag, spelled R-E-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S-T-A-G.
Definition
- 1gesetzlicher Feiertag in den deutschen Bundesländern Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen, der am 31. Oktober von den evangelischen Kirchen in Gedenken an die Reformation gefeiert wird
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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- The one correct German spelling is R-E-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S-T-A-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.