Sprachentwicklung
[ˈʃpʁaːxʔɛntˌvɪklʊŋ]
The verdict
“Sprachentwicklung” is uncommon German (frequency #65,708 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,708
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Spracherwerb von Kindern
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sprachentwicklung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpʁaːxʔɛntˌvɪklʊŋ] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #65,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sprachentwicklung” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Sprachentwicklung is uncommon German at frequency #65,708 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃpʁaːxʔɛntˌvɪklʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Sprachentwicklung has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Sprachentwicklung, spelled S-P-R-A-C-H-E-N-T-W-I-C-K-L-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Spracherwerb von Kindern
- 2Veränderungen in einer Sprache mit der Zeit
- 3Planung oder gezielte Veränderung einer Sprache
Antonyms
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 “Sprachentwicklung”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-P-R-A-C-H-E-N-T-W-I-C-K-L-U-N-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.