Sakrilegium

/[zakʁiˈleːɡi̯ʊm]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

Sakrilegium is aGermannoun. It means: Vergehen gegen Heiliges, zum Beispiel die Entweihung heiligen Bodens oder Sachen durch Raub, Schändung oder auch Missbrauch, aber auch Angriffe gegen geweihte Personen Pronounced [zakʁiˈleːɡi̯ʊm].

Key facts for Sakrilegium
PropertyValue
HeadwordSakrilegium
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[zakʁiˈleːɡi̯ʊm]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Sakrilegium is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Sakrilegium is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zakʁiˈleːɡi̯ʊm]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vergehen gegen Heiliges, zum Beispiel die Entweihung heiligen Bodens oder Sachen durch Raub, Schändung oder auch Missbrauch, aber auch Angriffe gegen geweihte Personen".

No misspelling variants are generated for Sakrilegium 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 Sakrilegium, spelled S-A-K-R-I-L-E-G-I-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vergehen gegen Heiliges, zum Beispiel die Entweihung heiligen Bodens oder Sachen durch Raub, Schändung oder auch Missbrauch, aber auch Angriffe gegen geweihte Personen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sakrilegium"?
"Sakrilegium" is spelled S-A-K-R-I-L-E-G-I-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is [zakʁiˈleːɡi̯ʊm].
What does "Sakrilegium" mean?
As a noun, "Sakrilegium" means: Vergehen gegen Heiliges, zum Beispiel die Entweihung heiligen Bodens oder Sachen durch Raub, Schändung oder auch Missbrauch, aber auch Angriffe gegen geweihte Personen
How do you pronounce "Sakrilegium"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sakrilegium" is [zakʁiˈleːɡi̯ʊm]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sakrilegium" come from?
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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.