Seraph
[ˈzeːʁaf]
The verdict
“Seraph” is uncommon German (frequency #83,295 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,295
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein sechsflügeliger Engel der Anbetung, der zuweilen in Gestalt einer Schlange erscheint
Corpus desk
Index DE-seraph · Seraph · German
Seraph · rank #83,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,295
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sensationelles
Nearest frequency peer: sensationelles (-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 „Seraph“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- selbsternan…
selbsternannter
16,710 corpus weight
- senil
senil
16,708 corpus weight
- sensationel…
sensationelles
16,707 corpus weight
- Seraph
Seraph
16,706 corpus weight
- Sexualdelik…
Sexualdelikte
16,704 corpus weight
- sheep
sheep
16,703 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Seraph“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Seraph |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzeːʁaf] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Seraph“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Seraph is uncommon German at frequency #83,295 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzeːʁaf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein sechsflügeliger Engel der Anbetung, der zuweilen in Gestalt einer Schlange erscheint".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Seraph, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Seraph, spelled S-E-R-A-P-H.
Definition
- 1ein sechsflügeliger Engel der Anbetung, der zuweilen in Gestalt einer Schlange erscheint
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Seraph appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Serafim standen über ihm; ein jeder hatte sechs Flügel: Mit zweien deckten sie ihr Antlitz, mit zweien deckten sie ihre Füße und mit zweien flogen sie.“
„Da flog einer der Serafim zu mir und hatte eine glühende Kohle in der Hand, die er mit der Zange vom Altar nahm, und rührte meinen Mund an und sprach: Siehe, hiermit sind deine Lippen berührt, dass deine Schuld von dir genommen werde und deine Sünde gesühnt sei.“
Antonyms
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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