Sakrileg
[zakʁiˈleːk]
The verdict
“Sakrileg” is uncommon German (frequency #68,636 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,636
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vergehen gegen Heiliges, zum Beispiel die Entweihung heiligen Bodens oder Sachen durch Raub, Schändung oder auch Missbrauch, aber auch Angriffe gegen geweihte Personen
Corpus desk
Index DE-sakrileg · Sakrileg · German
Sakrileg · rank #68,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,636
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sackgassen
Nearest frequency peer: Sackgassen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Sakrileg“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Rückenprobl…
Rückenprobleme
31,368 corpus weight
- Saals
Saals
31,367 corpus weight
- Sackgassen
Sackgassen
31,366 corpus weight
- Sakrileg
Sakrileg
31,365 corpus weight
- sandige
sandige
31,364 corpus weight
- scheidende
scheidende
31,363 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sakrileg“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sakrileg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zakʁiˈleːk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sakrileg“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sakrileg is uncommon German at frequency #68,636 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [zakʁiˈleːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vergehen gegen Heiliges, zum Beispiel die Entweihung heiligen Bodens oder Sachen durch Raub, Schändung oder auch Missbrauch, aber auch Angriffe gegen geweihte Personen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Sakrileg, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Sakrileg, spelled S-A-K-R-I-L-E-G.
Definition
- 1Vergehen gegen Heiliges, zum Beispiel die Entweihung heiligen Bodens oder Sachen durch Raub, Schändung oder auch Missbrauch, aber auch Angriffe gegen geweihte Personen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sakrileg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das ist ein Sakrileg!
„Und diese Empfindung war, paradoxerweise, durchsetzt mit einer Gleichgültigkeit, die einem Sakrileg gleichkam, weil sie die gesamte akademische Welt in Frage stellte.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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