Relegationsspiel
[ʁeleɡaˈt͡si̯oːnsˌʃpiːl]
The verdict
“Relegationsspiel” is uncommon German (frequency #86,970 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,970
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ein Entscheidungsspiel zwischen einer der schlechtesten Mannschaften einer höheren Spielklasse mit einer der besten Mannschaften der niedrigeren Spielklasse um den Verbleib in der bzw. den Aufstieg...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Relegationsspiel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁeleɡaˈt͡si̯oːnsˌʃpiːl] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #86,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Relegationsspiel” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Relegationsspiel is uncommon German at frequency #86,970 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʁeleɡaˈt͡si̯oːnsˌʃpiːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ein Entscheidungsspiel zwischen einer der schlechtesten Mannschaften einer höheren Spielklasse mit einer der besten Mannschaften der niedrigeren Spielklasse um den Verbleib in der bzw. den Aufstieg...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Relegationsspiel, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Relegationsspiel, spelled R-E-L-E-G-A-T-I-O-N-S-S-P-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Ein Entscheidungsspiel zwischen einer der schlechtesten Mannschaften einer höheren Spielklasse mit einer der besten Mannschaften der niedrigeren Spielklasse um den Verbleib in der bzw. den Aufstieg in die höhere Liga.
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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Using “Relegationsspiel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-E-L-E-G-A-T-I-O-N-S-S-P-I-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.