Sonnenkönig
[ˈzɔnənˌkøːnɪç]
The verdict
“Sonnenkönig” is uncommon German (frequency #89,590 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,590
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Beiname von Ludwig XIV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sonnenkönig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɔnənˌkøːnɪç] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #89,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sonnenkönig” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Sonnenkönig is uncommon German at frequency #89,590 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɔnənˌkøːnɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Beiname von Ludwig XIV.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Sonnenkönig in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Sonnenkönig, spelled S-O-N-N-E-N-K-Ö-N-I-G.
Definition
- 1Beiname von Ludwig XIV.
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 “Sonnenkönig”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-O-N-N-E-N-K-Ö-N-I-G - 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.