Spiritus lenis
[ˌspiːʁitʊs ˈleːnɪs]
The verdict
“Spiritus lenis” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - altgriechisches diakritisches Zeichen für das Fehlen des Hauch-Anlautes
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spiritus lenis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌspiːʁitʊs ˈleːnɪs] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Spiritus lenis” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Spiritus lenis is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌspiːʁitʊs ˈleːnɪs]. 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: "altgriechisches diakritisches Zeichen für das Fehlen des Hauch-Anlautes".
No misspelling variants are generated for Spiritus lenis 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 Spiritus lenis, spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-U-S- -L-E-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1altgriechisches diakritisches Zeichen für das Fehlen des Hauch-Anlautes
Antonyms
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- The one correct German spelling is S-P-I-R-I-T-U-S- -L-E-N-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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