Reinheit
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,673
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Reinheit is aGermannoun. It means: Abwesenheit von Schmutz und Dreck Pronounced [ˈʁaɪ̯nhaɪ̯t]. Often confused with Reichelt and reichert.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Reinheit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁaɪ̯nhaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Reinheit is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁaɪ̯nhaɪ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,673 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Reinheit, with forms such as "erinheit", "reihneit", and "reinehit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Reichelt", "reichert", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Reinheit, spelled R-E-I-N-H-E-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abwesenheit von Schmutz und Dreck
- 2Messlatte für die Sauberkeit eines Menschen/Gebäudes/etc.
- 3Chemie, Physik: Abwesenheit von Fremdkörpern in einem Stoff
- 4Optik: Reinheit einer Farbe (Farbreinheit)
- 5Stereochemie: optische Reinheit
- 6Religion: Abwesenheit des Bösen in einem Menschen
- 7Musik: Oktavreinheit, Klangreinheit
- 8Instrumentenkunde: Bundreinheit
- 9Weinkultur: Sortenreinheit
- 10Bereich der Sprachpflege: Sprachreinheit
- 11Militärwesen: Waffenreinheit
- 12Tierzüchtung: Reinheit einer Rasse
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erinheit,reihneit,reinehit,reinheitt,reinheti,reinhheit,reinhiet,reinnheit,reniheit,rienheit,rienhiet,rreinheit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Reinheit
Misspelling Variants of "Reinheit"
Frequency rank: #18,673 in German
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