sanctus
The verdict
“sanctus” is an uncommon German word, ranked #69,651 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #69,651
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - heilig, ehrwürdig, geweiht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanctus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sanctus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sanctus is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #69,651 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "heilig, ehrwürdig, geweiht".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sanctus, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is sanctus, spelled S-A-N-C-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1heilig, ehrwürdig, geweiht
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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Using “sanctus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-A-N-C-T-U-S - 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.