reformierte Kirche
[ʁefɔʁˌmiːɐ̯tə ˈkɪʁçə]
The verdict
“reformierte Kirche” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Eine der christlichen Konfessionen, die in und nach 1522 in Abgrenzung zur katholischen Kirche durch das Wirken von Ulrich Zwingli in Zürich und Johannes Calvin in Genf entstanden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reformierte Kirche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ʁefɔʁˌmiːɐ̯tə ˈkɪʁçə] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “reformierte Kirche” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for reformierte Kirche is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁefɔʁˌmiːɐ̯tə ˈkɪʁçə]. 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 reformierte Kirche 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 reformierte Kirche, spelled R-E-F-O-R-M-I-E-R-T-E- -K-I-R-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Eine der christlichen Konfessionen, die in und nach 1522 in Abgrenzung zur katholischen Kirche durch das Wirken von Ulrich Zwingli in Zürich und Johannes Calvin in Genf entstanden
- 2Gebäude, in dem die Gottesdienste der Anhänger von [1] abgehalten werden
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.
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- The one correct German spelling is R-E-F-O-R-M-I-E-R-T-E- -K-I-R-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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