Rotes Kreuz
The verdict
“Rotes Kreuz” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine internationale Organisation zur Milderung von Leiden der Kriegsopfer, zur Hilfe beim Austausch von Gefangenen und zur Auskunftserteilung über Kriegsgefangene, Gefallene, Vermisste et cetera, d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rotes Kreuz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʁoːtəs kʁɔɪ̯t͡s] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rotes Kreuz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Rotes Kreuz is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁoːtəs kʁɔɪ̯t͡s]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Rotes Kreuz 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 Rotes Kreuz, spelled R-O-T-E-S- -K-R-E-U-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine internationale Organisation zur Milderung von Leiden der Kriegsopfer, zur Hilfe beim Austausch von Gefangenen und zur Auskunftserteilung über Kriegsgefangene, Gefallene, Vermisste et cetera, die in nationalen Gesellschaften organisiert ist. Das Rote Kreuz wurde 1863 auf Anregung von Henri Dunant gegründet, der dafür 1901 den ersten Friedensnobelpreis erhielt.
- 2die Kurzbezeichnung für das Deutsche Rote Kreuz (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz)
- 3das internationale Schutzzeichen: rotes Kreuz auf weißem Grund der unter ^([1]) genannten Organisation
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Using “Rotes Kreuz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-O-T-E-S- -K-R-E-U-Z — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʁoːtəs kʁɔɪ̯t͡s] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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