sanctus
The verdict
“sanctus” is uncommon German (frequency #69,651 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,651
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - heilig, ehrwürdig, geweiht
Corpus desk
Index DE-sanctus · sanctus · German
sanctus · rank #69,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,651
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Samara
Nearest frequency peer: Samara (-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 „sanctus“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sachdienlic…
sachdienliche
30,356 corpus weight
- sachkundiger
sachkundiger
30,354 corpus weight
- Samara
Samara
30,351 corpus weight
- sanctus
sanctus
30,350 corpus weight
- sandten
sandten
30,348 corpus weight
- Sardellen
Sardellen
30,345 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sanctus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sanctus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sanctus is uncommon German at frequency #69,651 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sanctus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„sancta puer Saturni filia regina“ (Andr. poet. 12)
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).