Religionsgemeinschaft
[ʁeliˈɡi̯oːnsɡəˌmaɪ̯nʃaft]
The verdict
“Religionsgemeinschaft” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #35,410 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #35,410
- frequency rank, German
- 21
- letters
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gemeinschaft aller, die sich zu einer bestimmten Religion bekennen
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Religionsgemeinschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁeliˈɡi̯oːnsɡəˌmaɪ̯nʃaft] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Frequency rank | #35,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Religionsgemeinschaft” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Religionsgemeinschaft is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁeliˈɡi̯oːnsɡəˌmaɪ̯nʃaft]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,410 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gemeinschaft aller, die sich zu einer bestimmten Religion bekennen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Religionsgemeinschaft in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Religionsgemeinschaften", 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 Religionsgemeinschaft, spelled R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N-S-G-E-M-E-I-N-S-C-H-A-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gemeinschaft aller, die sich zu einer bestimmten Religion bekennen
Synonyms
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 “Religionsgemeinschaft”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N-S-G-E-M-E-I-N-S-C-H-A-F-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʁeliˈɡi̯oːnsɡəˌmaɪ̯nʃaft] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Religionsgemeinschaften” - see the side-by-side comparison. Religionsgemeinschaft vs Religionsgemeinschaften
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